Two young women Alekhya (27) and Sai Divya (23) were killed allegedly by their parents inside their three-storey home in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Sunday 24th Jan in a bizarre and shocking crime that the police suspect was linked to black magic. Alekhya used to work at Bhopal's Indian Institute of Forest Management and had recently resigned to prepare for IAS,IPS exam. Sai Divya was a graduate and was pursuing music at a Chennai-based A R Rahman institute. The sisters had returned home during the lockdown and no one had been allowed inside the house for months. 

The neighbours noticed something strange happening in the house and immediately informed the police. When the police reached the spot, they found Alekhya and Sai Divya were found in red saris, lying in blood with their heads bashed in. They had been killed allegedly with a dumbbell. The family appeared to have participated in a black magic ritual before the murders. Neighbours said the girls were made to circle the house as part of the elaborate rituals. According to the police the parents Valleru Purushottam Naidu and Padmaja, both in their 50s, went away spiritually into another zone. The parents kept saying that they could bring the girls back to life in one day. 

Both the parents have been arrested. However, the couple aggressively resisted arrest. Naidu said, “I am not an idiot...I am a PhD. We got certain messages that we must carry this out.”  Padmaja said, “I am Shiva. It is from my body particles that Corona came, not from China. "Why could you not have waited half an hour? If you had kept your faith, our girls would have come alive.'' Naidu is a professor of chemistry and vice-principal at the Government Girls' Degree College in Madanapalle. Padmaja is a gold medalist, postgraduate in mathematics. She was working at an IIT coaching institute,

Even though they were so educated they were extremely superstitious. In the four days before the murder, maids were also not allowed. The police said they were looking at CCTV cameras in the vicinity to track the movement of people in and out of the house.  Police said the parents were also planning suicide. But they did not do it because the police reached in time. The police feel that the parents felt that if they killed their daughters and then committed suicide, they would all come back to life and would have a better life.

The couple have been shifted to a government healthcare facility in Tirupati for psychological evaluation and treatment if required.

Tags

• Andhra
• Pradesh
• Chittoor
• Black Magic
• Prof

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