Superintendent of Police G. Pala Raju has said that the mystery behind the 24-year-old woman, Mudunuru Ashwini, who was found in flames in a residential layout on Dwarapudi Road late on Friday evening by some passersby and admitted her in the district headquarters hospital with 95% burns on her body, was found to be a suicide. Mr. Pala Raju revealed this at a press conference on Saturday evening.
He said that Ashwini, who studied B. Tech, was reportedly vexed with her obesity. She went for an evening walk to the layout. According to the CC footage, she went to a petrol refilling station at Collector’s Office, purchased two litres of petrol in a bottle and went back to the layout, poured petrol on her body and set herself on fire. When she raised an alarm, passersby called up 108 ambulance and admitted her in the hospital where she succumbed to burns at 10 p.m. on Friday
However, according to a complaint lodged by her father M.V. Sai Ram, a resident of Polayyapeta in the town, two unknown persons reportedly confronted her in the layout, tied her legs, poured petrol on her body and lit the fire. Following the complaint, the SP constituted six teams for investigation and also pressed dog squad. The teams found the complaint as false. The teams also recovered some of her belongings, including a bottle, in which the deceased purchased petrol at the site. The police concluded it as a suicide after matching fingerprints on the bottle.
