Overview
- The 18-year-old B.Sc. nursing student was found dead at her home on September 22, and authorities initially registered the case as a suspicious death.
- A postmortem concluded she was strangled with a wire, prompting police to change the investigation from Section 194 of the BNSS to a murder case under Section 103(1) of the BNS.
- Police say they arrested a 22-year-old local man after tracing his movements and acting on a tip-off, with reports identifying him as Devarakonda Pavan or Praveen Kumar.
- Investigators recovered two mobile phones including the victim’s, a motorcycle and the bike’s gear wire, and say the suspect hid the motorcycle near the Sitarama Project canal before fleeing to Visakhapatnam and Tirupati.
- Officers allege the killing followed a rejected marriage proposal and family disputes between the two parties, and prosecutors will now build a case based on the seized evidence and forensic findings.