Overview

• Oleti Pushpa, 22, was killed on July 16 in Siddhartha Nagar of B Savaram village after her live-in partner, Sheikh Shamma, pressured her into prostitution and attacked her with a knife when she refused
• Pushpa’s mother, Ganga, and her brother suffered injuries when they tried to intervene in the attack
• Razole police registered a homicide case and dispatched two teams to pursue Shamma, who remains at large
• On July 15, convicted inmate Indla Suresh escaped from Nellore Central Prison under mysterious circumstances, triggering a separate manhunt
• The Prison Department and local authorities have launched a massive search for Suresh and are probing security gaps that allowed his escape