Parents of software engineer N. Sasikala, who was found murdered along with her son in New Jersey, U.S., produced on Saturday emails to substantiate their allegation that their son-in-law N. Hanumantha Rao was behind the crime “the motive being to continue his affair with his colleague”.
Sasikala and her seven-year-old son were found dead in a pool of blood in their apartment in Maple Shade on Thursday.
In what they said was solid evidence that established the illicit affair between Mr. Hanumantha Rao and a colleague, Sasikala’s father S. Venkateswara Rao, mother S. Krishna Kumari, family members and their advocates presented before the media screenshots of purported conversations between the two.
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Ms. Kumari said that they had evidence to show that Mr. Hanumantha Rao had been having an affair with a colleague who works as a manager.
Since 2012 they were having an affair and from the same time our daughter was subjected to harassment, the retired school teacher alleged.
“A year after giving birth to Anish, she (Sasikala) came to know about the affair. My daughter strongly believed that he (Mr. Hanumantha Rao) would heed to his mother’s advice and change. She even booked a ticket for her to the U.S. hoping that she would help her out of the situation. Unfortunately, she supported her son and asked my daughter to adjust,” Ms. Kumari alleged.
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“We have emails showing how he was harassing our daughter since 2014,” she said, and added that Sasikala had sent mails to her brother Vijay Bhaskar with attachments of screenshots of purported text conversations between Mr. Hanumantha Rao and his colleague.
“We appeal to the government to intervene and do justice to my daughter and grandson who were brutally killed,” Ms. Kumari said.
“The reason I am doing all this is to bring peace to my daughter’s soul,” Ms. Kumari added.
“Our relatives in the U.S. told us that the reports found that Sasikala and her son were punched before being stabbed,” a relative said.