Tirupati Murder Case: Charred Remains Found In Suitcase Are Of A Hyderabad Techie

Tirupati murder case: On June 23, Tirupati police found a dead body, charred beyond recognition, stuffed in a suitcase near the SVRR Government General Hospital. After forensic tests the remains have been identified as that of a woman named Bhuvaneswari of Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. The 27-year-old deceased's husband is reportedly on the run.

The woman, named Bhuvaneswari, was employed as a software engineer in Hyderabad. The police have nabbed one suspect and have intensified their search for the husband of the deceased woman, who is now absconding. Police suspect that her husband, Srikanth Reddy, might be involved in the murder.

The police took assistance from the forensics team to ascertain the sex and age of the body as the remains were recovered in poor condition. They also dug through CCTV footage from around the hospital in search of clues and found the movement of a suspicious taxi. After starting a probe into the murder, police then picked up a taxi driver who upon questioning allegedly confessed to having assisted with the disposal of the body.

Bhuvaneswari and Reddy are parents to a three-month-old child. The couple got married in 2019, and had hit a rough patch recently, according to the Times of India. Police say that the deceased woman was working as a software engineer in a major tech firm in Hyderabad. However, after her husband lost his job last year, the couple relocated to Tirupati.

The couple reportedly used to have frequent quarrels and the police suspects that Reddy may have killed his wife in a fit of rage. The investigating team suspects that after murdering his wife, Reddy packed the body into the suitcase and disposed of it near an isolated spot near the hospital.

Police say he then returned to the spot the same night to set the disposed body on fire, as a result of which almost 85-90 percent of the body surface had been charred.

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