Parents die as stalker attacks girl with knife
Rajahmundry
Sept. 17: A stalker attacked a teenaged girl with a knife and stabbed to death both her parents when they tried to protect her. The girl, Anusha, 16, suffered a stab wound on her neck.
The incident occurred at Lalitanagar of Rajah-mundry in East Godavari at around 8 pm on Thursday. Anusha is the eldest of the three daughters of Mr Narla Srinu, 37, an autorickshaw driver, and Mrs Satyavathi, 35, a housewife. The stalker, Matta Rajesh Kumar, 18, who works for a courier agency, had been harassing her for the last six months.
Though she spurned his advances and pleaded with him not to trouble her, Rajesh continued to harass her.
Unable to bear the teasing, Anusha lodged a complaint with the three town police station on May 28. The police arrested Rajesh on eve teasing charges and he spent four days in prison. But he came out on bail and continued to harass Anusha.
On Thursday, at about 8 pm, he jumped the wall of Anusha’s house, barged into her bathroom, whipped out a knife and attacked her. The terrified girl screamed even as Rajesh stabbed her on the neck. Her mother, Mrs Sathayavathi, flung herself between the assailant and her daughter. An angry Rajesh then stabbed her several times, wounding her heavily.
Anusha’s father, Mr Srinu, also rushed in hearing the commotion. Rajesh then turned towards him and stabbed him several times. As blood gushed out, he ran away from the spot. A wounded Anusha alerted neighbours who immediately summoned the 108 ambulance which shifted Sathyavathi to the Government General Hospital which was nearly five kilometres away. But she was dead by the time the ambulance reached the hospital.
The hapless and wounded girl took her heavily-bleeding father to the GGH in an autorickshaw. There was nobody to help her. But he too succumbed to his injuries as doctors tried to give him emergency treatment. Anusha was admitted in the hospital and is said to be out of danger. However, she had not been told about her parents’ death.
“Rajesh has been troubling me for a long time and had threatened to kill my father and molest my mother if I did not marry him,” said the injured girl. “I want him to be hanged publicly as a lesson for others.”
“She sustained a knife wound on the neck but her condition is stable at present,” said the GGH chief medical officer Dr Nagesh. Several women’s groups arrived at the GGH and sharply condemned the incident. “The boy should be hanged publicly for this heinous act,” said the AICC member, Ms Jakkampudi Vijayalakshmi.
The East Godavari superintendent of police, Mr Y. Nagireddy, said police had earlier arrested the boy on charges of eve teasing but was given bail by the court. “It would be best to conduct speedy trials and award punishments in eve teasing cases so that such offences do not take place,” he said.
“Rajesh’s parents admonished him and tried to prevent him from teasing the girl but he did not listen to them,” said a neighbour, Mr K. Ramana Murthy. “After police arrested him, his family was also forced to vacate the house in which they were staying.”
