Purushotham and Padmaja have decided to engage the services of Madanapalle-based lawyer Sambasiva Reddy instead of availing the legal services of Krishnamachari and his team
TIRUPATI: Madanapalle double murder accused V Purushotham Naidu and his wife Padmaja, who are said to have used dumbbells and a trident to kill their two young daughters last month, apparently treated the objects to be Lord Shiva’s ‘damruks’ and ‘trishul’. They also believed that their daughters Alekhya and Sai Divya, if ‘sacrificed’ that way, would return back to life in a purer form.
This was disclosed by the girls’ father to Nakka Rajini, the lawyer who is part of senior advocate P V Krishnamachari’s team, who met Purushotham and Padmaja at Madanapalle sub-jail before they were shifted to the mental care hospital in Visakhapatnam. It may be recalled that Krishnamachari was approached by old students of the accused parents, requesting him to provide legal assistance to the couple.
She was singing and dancing and shouting that the novel coronavirus had not originated in China, but created by the gods to cleanse the “bad elements” in the Kali Yug.
When police took Padmaja to a hospital for Covid-19 test, she refused to give her sample shouting that she herself was novel coronavirus in human form and there was no need for tests.
The police have named Naidu as accused No 1 and Padmaja as accused No 2 in the case.
The couple on Sunday brutally murdered their daughters, Alekhya (27) and Sai Divya (22), in what appeared to be part of occult practice.
TIRUPATI: The couple who bludgeoned their two daughters to death at Madanapalle in Chittoor on Sunday did so with the belief that their children would.
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AMARAVATI: Minutes after getting the green signal from the Supreme Court to continue the election process for gram panchayats, State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar swung into action on Monday.
SEC revised the schedule for the first phase of elections keeping in view of the fact that the district collectors have not made any arrangements to accept nominations from Monday. SEC said that the dates fixed for the polling (if necessary) for the II, III and IV phase will remain unaltered. However, the II phase will become phase-I and phase-III will become phase-II and phase-IV will be treated as phase-III and phase-I had been rescheduled as phase-IV.
Police seized 10 red sanders logs weighing about 310 kgs and worth approximately Rs 10 lakh in the international markets.
TIRUPATI: Kadapa police arrested two red sanders smugglers and seized Rs.10 lakh worth red sanders logs on Monday.
According to Kadapa district additional SP M Deva Prasad (Operations), two smugglers identified as Jangala Siva Sankar (40), a native of Gandlapalli village in Vontimitta mandal who is now residing at Tirupati and his accomplice Vasu were arrested by the police at Arundhatiwada road near Chintharajupalli on Sunday.
Police seized 10 red sanders logs weighing about 310 kgs and worth approximately Rs 10 lakh in the international markets.
Additional SP M Deva Prasad appreciated the efforts of the Rajampet and Vontimitta police in arresting the two smugglers and recovering the logs meant to be smuggled away.