Overview

• The victim, 39-year-old Satla Anjali, was a folk singer linked to a Telangana government cultural scheme.
• Her 16-year-old daughter had eloped with 19-year-old Pagilla Shiva Kumar earlier this month, prompting Anjali to file a missing person report and have the couple returned home three days before the murder.
• Police allege the minor recruited Shiva and his brother Pagilla Yashwanth to strangle Anjali during her evening puja and then bludgeon her to death in a premeditated attack.
• CCTV footage and testimony from Anjali’s younger daughter enabled officers to arrest all three suspects within 24 hours of the crime.
• A murder case has been registered and the accused have been remanded as forensic analysis and legal proceedings proceed.