The News Bureau
It was scripted perfectly to make it look like any ordinary murder for gain. But once the cops began the investigation, skeletons started tumbling out of the closet. Soon, it turned out to be a meticulously planned murder due to strained marriage and a murky extramarital love.
It all started when a software engineer N Sowjanya, 24, working with Accenture, Bengaluru, reported a sensational murder for gain on September 14 at Hayathnagar police st
She said when they reached near Gandicehruvu road at about 7.30 pm., the assailants, speaking Telugu and wearing masks attacked them with knives. They slit the throat of Venkateswar Rao, she said, adding that the murderers fled the scene snatching her managalsutra and cell phone after inflicting serious injuries on her.
Her husband died on the spot. Sowjanya said she managed to come to the main road and with great difficulty with the help of passersby, got admitted in the hospital. A case was registered under Section 302, 382, 307 IPC.
The Special Operations Team (SOT), Cyberabad, swung into action and started probing the case. Within days the cops unravelled the mystery behind the murder and three persons including Sowjanya herself, her lover Jaideep Deshi a
During the investigations, the police found that Sowjanya was in love with her classmate Jaideep while she was doing her BSc Biotechnology from 2008 to 2010 at Navachaitanya degree college, Narayanaguda.
After graduation both had joined a coaching centre at Himayathnagar and appeared for Civil Services examinations unsuccessfully in 2011. Later, they both worked in Neon technologies at Tarnaka and Innovent technology, Begumpet, Hyderabad as software employees up to 2012.
Later, both got selected in Accenture in Bengaluru as developers and they were residing in separate hostels. They were in fact planning to get married and live together. But as fate has it, the unexpected happened in Sowjanya’s life. To her utter dismay, her elder sister Swetha eloped with her lover just three days before her marriage.
It turned things upside down. In order to keep the family honour, Sowjanya’s parents forced her to marry Venkateswar Rao who was supposed to marry her sister. Vekateswar, a resident of Mirjalguda was a diesel mechanic in APRTC Picket depot.
Sowjanya reluctantly agreed for the marriage and the wedding was performed at the same muhurat. Soon after marriage Sowjanya realized her mismatch and continued her friendship with Jaideep in Bengaluru. Finally she decided to eliminate her husband as she could not lead happy life with Jaideep and convinced him for the same.
According to their plan, Sowjanya and Jaideep left Bengaluru on September 13 and reached Hyderabad the next day. Sowjanya coaxed her husband to take her to Sanghi Temple the same day evening. Meanwhile, Jaideep and his friend Raj Kumar made their plans ready.
After darshan, on their return, Sowjanya intentionally diverted Venkateswar Rao to internal road leading into open yard near to Gandicheruvu village pretending
When Venkateswar Rao stopped the bike, Jaideep and Raj Kumar, who were following the duo, attacked him with knife. Jaideep cut the throat of the victim while Sowjanya caught his legs and Rajkumar his hands. As stage managed, Raj Kumar and Jaideep took away Sowjanya’s cell phone and her gold chain and vanished from the scene on the same bike.
Special Operations Team headed by K Govardhan Reddy, OSD, Cyberabad, comprised of Inspectors Ch Kushalkar and K Chandra Sekhar, SIs K Ramesh and G Nagaraju, HCs Srinivasa Rao, Gnaneshwar Goud and PCs Srikanth and Anand worked overtime and caught all the three accused.