Man throttles his 26-year-old wife and son in Ghatkesar, Hyderabad

A man allegedly throttled his 26-year-old wife and four-month-old child to death, and later set the bodies ablaze at an open plot in Ghatkesar. The culprit, a B Tech graduate, was arrested subsequently for the double murder.

Around 10 am, M Venkatesham, revenue inspector of Ghatkesar, lodged a complaint with the police stating that village revenue assistant of Kondapur received information about someone killing and burning the bodies of unknown people in an open land in Kondapur village.

As Ghatkesar police were trying to establish the identity of the victims, their counterparts from Palakurthi in Jangaon district informed that one Ramesh of Gudur village in Palakurthi mandal approached them saying he had throttled his wife and four-month-old son to death, and then set the bodies ablaze at Ghatkesar.

The victims were identified as Sushruta, and her yet-to-be named son. In 2015, Sushruta, a native of



Bollikunta village in Warangal district, fell in love with Ramesh, a native of Gudur village.

Sushruta, a B Pharmacy graduate, belonged to a Scheduled Caste community, while Ramesh is a BTech graduate and belongs to a Backward Caste. He is working at a private company in Vikarabad. Their family members were against the marriage, and the couple got married at Arya Samaj, Ghatkesar inspector P Raghuveer Reddy said.

“Ramesh claimed Sushruta was staying with her parents for the past eight months because of differences with him. On Saturday evening, she along with the infant went to Uppal to meet Ramesh,” the inspector said.