Visakhapatnam: In a suicide pact, a 42-year-old NRI, Kunchuboina Phani Mahesh, a software engineer, along with his advocate mother Kunchuboina Bhagyalakshmi, 65, allegedly committed suicide by setting themselves ablaze in their apartment at Golalapalem area under Two Town police station limits in Vizag city on Friday morning. Though the police are yet to ascertain the exact reasons for the suicide pact, they are suspecting that family disputes might be the reason for the suicide of the mother and son.
Sources said that Bhagyalakshmi has been living alone in her flat after separating from her husband Dr K. Rama Rao around two decades ago. Bhagyalakshmi’s son Phani Mahesh, who is a software engineer in Dallas city in the USA, came to Vizag city about a week ago and he was to leave for Dallas on Friday evening. He even booked an autorickshaw to take him to the airport in the evening. The residents of the apartment said that on Friday morning around 8 am Phani asked the watchman of the apartment to bring a match box. Around 8.30 am, the neighbours noticed smoke coming out of Bhagyalakshmi’s flat.
