Hyderabad: Watchman asks women to be silent; gets stabbed

Hyderabad: Two women, daughters of a retired inspector, stabbed a security guard for asking them not to make noise at midnight in the building at Kukatpally.

One of the women poured water on a CCTV camera in order to conceal the crime, but the plan failed. Police have sent the two attackers — G. Sunitha, 40, and her sister Sailaja, 39, daughters of retired sub-inspector Ramana Murthy — to a government hospital for psychiatric check up after booking a case against them. Neighbours said the sisters had been “behaving erratically” for several weeks.

The guard, Mr R. Bhusaiah, is in hospital with multiple injuries. The incident took place at Sai Bharadwaj Apartment in Vivekananda Nagar Colony in Kukatpally early on Sunday.

“At about 2 am, one of the residents called the watchman and asked him to check the sounds coming from Mr Ramana Murthy’s apartment. Mr Busaiah knocked on the door of the flat and asked the women not to make noise as other residents were complaining. Infuriated by this, they started arguing with him and stabbed him with a knife,” said a Kukatpally police officer.

The CCTV footage showed one woman throwing water at the CCTV camera, while another woman stabbed the guard in his hip. The sisters repeated the act.

The other residents who had woken up by then pacified the women and rushed the watchman to a nearby hospital.

On Sunday morning, the residents approached the Kukatpally police and lodged a complaint against the two women for stabbing the watchman and gave video footage.

Kukatpally sub-inspector P. Suresh said, “We have not arrested them yet. The mental condition of the two women seem to be abnormal. They have to undergo a psychiatric test before we start legal procedures.”

Both women are unmarried and live with their parents in the apartment.