Accused spice poisoner fears jail torture

An IT consultant accused of hiring assassins to poison his ex-wife and her family with arsenic-laced spices is fighting his extradition to India on the grounds that he could be tortured in prison, a court heard today. Ajith Kumar Mupparapu, 46, was living in Berkshire with oncologist Dr Sirisha Muttavarapu but she filed for divorce after five years of marriage in 2022. Mupparapu allegedly hired nine contract killers from his home to try and kill his ex-wife and her extended…