A ‘mentally unstable’ woman allegedly killed her 40-day-old daughter and dumped the body in a water sump at Gachibowli on Sunday.
The woman, identified as Manasa, wife of a daily wage earner in Peddapalli district came to her parents’ house in street No. 3 of Gachibowli for delivery nearly five months ago, police said. Investigators said that Manasa was mentally ill and has been undergoing treatment.
“On Sunday, when the infant girl disappeared, her grandparents started searching for her in the vicinity and the body was found floating in the sump,” cops said.
Manasa, who confessed to killing her newborn daughter, is yet to be arrested by the police, as they are seeking legal opinion over her present health condition. Police, who sent the victim’s body for autopsy, suspect the infant was throttled and the body was dumped in a sump. “We also suspect that someone has influenced the woman to kill her own daughter,” the investigators said.
Two held for murder
The Ramgopalpet police on Monday arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a 25-year-old ragpicker Rahul at Ranigunj in Secunderabad last Thursday.
The arrested were identified as Elagandula Satyanarayana (45) and Pamula Srinivas Rao (32), natives of Yadadri Bhongir district. Saifabad ACP C Venugopal Reddy said that the duo confessed to have killed Rahul as he used to ‘extort’ money from them.
Techie’s body found
The mutilated body of a 26-year-old techie was found on the track near Lingampally railway station on Monday morning. From his ID card, he was identified as Siramshetty Satwik, a native of Mahabubabad.
An employee of a software company in Gachibowli, he used to live in a hostel. Government Railway Police of Vikarabad station said that around 8 a.m., the pilot of a freight train noticed the body and alerted the station manager.
Police said he could have committed suicide by jumping in front of a train and the exact reason was yet to be ascertained.
“The body was identified after recovering ID cards from his trouser pocket. We also recovered his mobile through which we alerted Satwik’s parents,” said head constable T Sai Babu.
