Jan. 27: A female degree student was brutally murdered in Karmanghat in the outskirts of the city and two other girls were attacked in Ongole and Anantapur by stalkers on Tuesday.
These incidents have occurred even as the gruesome acid attack on two girl students in Warangal and the gunning down of the stalkers by the police is still in public memory.In Karmanghat, police found the body of Gangula Swetha Reddy, 21, a native of Mahbubnagar district, lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom.
She had grievous head injuries and stab wounds on her abdomen. Cops recovered an iron rod and a beer bottle from the spot.Police suspects that the killer also attempted to rape Swetha, a final year degree student of Pragathi College, before killing her.Investigators feel that the murder was committed by a person who knew the girl.Swetha was staying in her elder sister’s house in Srinidhi Colony in Karmanghat.
Neighbours said she came back from college at 2.30 pm and was accompanied by a person who claimed to be her ‘brother’.After an hour neighbours heard some commotion from inside the house. It was Swetha’s brother, Kranthi Kumar Reddy, who found the body when he came in at 5.30 pm.Meanwhile, A. Sravanthi, a third year B-Tech student of the Malineni Lakshmaiah College of Engineering at Singarayakonda of Prakasam district, suffered serious injuries on her neck after she was attacked with a razor blade by a fellow student, K Himavanthkumar Reddy.According to students, Himavanth had proposed to Sravanthi a year ago but she turned down his advances.
After slashing the girl’s neck with the razor, Himavanth tried to jump off from the third floor of the college, but was overpowered by fellow students and handed over to the police. Sravanthi was injured on her neck and chin and was operated upon in Kotareddy hospital at Kandukur.In a similar incident in Anantapur, Bindu Bharati, a second year intermediate student of a private college, was attacked by two scooter-borne masked men on Tuesday.
It is learnt that based on a complaint lodged by Bindu two years ago, police had conducted counselling for a youth who was stalking her. Cops are investigating whether the youth was behind the attack on Bindu Bharati.
