Police clueless over murder and attack in Kavali

Nellore: Police are on the lookout for unidentified persons who attacked two women and two children with lethal weapons at their home in the Banana Garden area of old town in Kavali late on Friday night. They gained entry into the house, pretending to have come to check Aadhaar card details.  

While one of the women, Kavitha, 35, died on the spot, the two children and their grandmother were admitted to a hospital at Nellore.

The father of the two children, Janardhan Reddy, who works at the Telecom Department in Hyderabad, had dropped the children at his parents' house for Shi-varatri.

The police have formed four teams, headed by four circle inspectors and assisted by Central Crime Station staff under the supervision of Kavali Deputy Superintendent of Police Raghava Rao, to track down the criminals.

The police also detained Kavitha's husband, Venkateswar Reddy for questioning after her parents told the police that he was responsible for the attack and murder as he had been harassing her for several years.

Susheelamma, 60, and her first son's wife, Kavitha, and second son's children, Visishta Reddy, 3, and Deekshit, 4, were at home when the incident happened.

The women put up a brave defence, throwing chilli powder on the four interlopers' faces and hitting them on the head with an iron object similar to a hammer.

Nagi Reddy, husband of Susheelamma, when he came home around 9 pm, found them unconscious and lying in a pool of blood.

The paramedical staff declared Kavitha dead and shifted the other three to Kavali hospital and thereafter to a corporate hospital in Nellore where they are reportedly out of danger.

Susheelamma, who is barely able to speak, told the police what happened, but there are many gaps in her version as also on the number of people who attacked them.