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Love awash in acid: ‘Evadu’ re-run in crime of passion

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December 11, 2017

Hyderabad, Dec 11: This was a crime of passion with a gory twist and the plot weaved around the Tollywood blockbuster, Evadu,in which actor Allu Arjun underwent plastic surgery to resemble another character (Ram Charan Tej). A woman and her alleged paramour killed her husband and then disfigured her lover's face with acid to pass him off as her husband. However, their plan went bust and Nagarkurnool police arrested the woman on Sunday.

The woman, M Swathi, 27, along with her paramour Rajesh, a physiotherapist, had murdered her husband M Sudhakar Reddy, 32, of Nagarkurnool nearly two weeks ago and dumped the body in a forest.

"Sudhakar Reddy was operating a stone-crushing unit. He married Swathi, a trained nurse, and the couple was blessed with two children. Swathi would go to Rajesh for physiotherapy and later they started having an affair. The duo felt Sudhakar was an obstacle in their relationship and decided to eliminate him. They hatched a conspiracy to ensure Rajesh could take the place of Sudhakar and even take control over properties," Nagarkurnool deputy superintendent of police (DSP) A Lakshmi Narayana said.

Around 5am on November 27, when Sudhakar was in sleep, Rajesh and Swathi gave him an anaesthetic injection and he lost consciousness. "The duo hit him hard on the head with an iron rod and killed him. Later, they moved the body into the boot of a car and dumped the body in the forest area in Nawabpet in Mahbubnagar district," the DSP said.

"After they returned home, Swathi smeared acid on Rajesh and disfigured his face. Later, she called up her relatives and told them that unidentified persons entered the house and threw petrol on her husband. 'Injured' Rajesh, who was pretending as Sudhakar Reddy, was shifted to Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad. On November 28, Sudhakar's brother lodged a complaint, alleging that unidentified persons attacked his brother and burnt him with petrol. We registered a case and began investigation," Lakshmi Narayana.

As the burns started healing, Sudhakar Reddy's family members suspected the injured man was actually Sudhakar. By then, they had spent around Rs 5 lakh for the treatment of their 'son'. "They repeatedly asked the injured person (Rajesh) in ICU about details of family members. He didn't speak a word as they would recognise his voice and started writing on the palm. As he was unable to give details, family members came to a conclusion that he was not Sudhakar Reddy. The family went to police and lodged another complaint, stating some other person took the place of Sudhakar Reddy. They also expressed doubts over Swathi," the DSP said.

On sustained interrogation, Swathi buckled under pressure and confessed. She also showed the location where the body was dumped. Police retrieved the decomposed body and handed it over to the family members. A murder case was booked against the two. Swathi was arrested on Sunday. Police said they would arrest Rajesh after he gets discharged from hospital.

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January 17,2020

Jan 17: Police have busted a "high- profile" sex racket operating in a three-star hotel in suburban Andheri and arrested a 29-year-old woman and rescued three female artists, including a minor, an official said on Thursday.

The Social Service (SS) branch of the city police conducted the raid at the hotel at Andheri East on Thursday, the official said.

"During the raid, three females, including a minor, were found to have been forced into prostitution. They were rescued and a woman, identified as Priya Sharma, who was operating the racket, was arrested," he said.

"Sharma was running tours and travel agency in Kandivali East. However, she was involved in immoral activities," senior inspector of SS branch, Sandesh Revale, said.

While one of the rescued is a woman actor and singer, who has worked in 'Savdhaan India' TV crime show, he said, another one has worked in a Marathi movie and serials.

The minor has worked in a web series, Revale added.

The offence was being registered against Sharma, he said.

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March 7,2020

Palghar, Mar 7: Police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating several shopkeepers in Maharashtra's Thane, Pune and Nashik by making phone calls in a woman's voice, police said on Friday.

The accused, Shashikant Ambekar (42), a resident of Palghar, was arrested in the last week of February, they said.

"He used to note down the phone numbers mentioned on different shops and call the owners in a woman's voice to order some things from them. He would tell them that he had a Rs 2000 currency note and needed change," an official said.

"He would ask the shopkeepers to send smaller denomination notes for exchange. He would wait at the entrance of buildings and when the delivery man arrived, he used to tell that he was there on behalf of the ''caller woman''.

"He would then take the currency notes from the delivery man saying he would get the Rs 2,000 note from the woman. However, he would disappear from the scene," the official said.

Police have seized Rs 1,85,000 from the accused and found that so far he has committed 22 similar crimes in different parts of the state.

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March 28,2020

Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.

The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.

The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.

He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.

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