HYDERABAD: The ingenious plot hatched by a woman to kill her husband, and swap his identity with that of her lover, came full circle on Thursday with the Nagarkurnool police taking Rajesh Ajjakolu into custody. Ajjakolu, who was in a relationship with M Swati, was discharged from Apollo Hospitals in Jubilee Hills after being treated for burns sustained to pass of as Swati’s husband.Swati has already been arrested in the case and is in judicial remand on charges of drugging and clubbing her husband, M Sudhakar Reddy and for causing burn wounds to Rajesh. Police revealed that Rajesh during interrogation on Thursday said he had actually wanted to elope with Swati but she insisted on killing her husband. This, he said, was because Swati believed her parents would ‘die of shock’ if she eloped with him. Nagarkurnool deputy superintendent of police A Lakshmi Narayana told TOI, “We will arrest Rajesh and produce him on Friday in the court. We are grilling him now to unravel missing links in the case.”While cops initially said that Swati used acid to cause Rajesh’s burn injuries, his doctor said some kind of ‘petrol spray’ was used. The lover’s plot was undone when Sudhakar’s parents realised something was amiss when their ‘son’ refused to have mutton soup, his favourite dish. They then found out that the man was Rajesh, a vegetarian.Plastic surgeon Dr Jagadish M Jyoti, at the Apollo Hospital, told TOI, “Rajesh was admitted to hospital with 30% burn injuries over the face, neck, chest, both hands and feet. It appeared as if someone had deliberately sprayed petrol on his face and set afire. Burn injuries don’t look like acid as they are not deep. We gave him a protein-rich diet for healing. For non-vegeterians, we give mutton soup, and for vegetarians we given Kaju badam, pista and paneer.”Sudhakar’s family, who paid Rs 5 lakh in medical bills left Rajesh at the hospital after realising his identity. Police will take Rajesh where the body was dumped near Nawabpet to reconstruct the crime. Meanwhile, Swati’s father declared she was dead to him and in a symbolic move tonsured his head. Her parents want her to be hanged.