The prosecution case was that 26-year-old Meganathan, a married man with two children, was having illicit relationship with a 36-year-old married woman in the same locality.
According to the prosecution, after he came to know that she was having an affair with another man, an infuriated Meganathan decided to murder her and on November 26, 2013, he took the woman to an isolated spot, strangled and stabbed her to death and threw the body into a canal.
A few days later, he surrendered to police.