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Cops reconstruct meticulous murder, masquerade case
As part of investigations in the Sudhakar Reddy murder case, a police team took the accused Swathi and Rajesh to Nawabpet forest area to reconstruct the crime scene.
Nagarkurnool: As part of investigations in the Sudhakar Reddy murder case, a police team took the accused Swathi and Rajesh to Nawabpet forest area to reconstruct the crime scene.
Rajesh told interrogators that he joined Swathi in the gruesome act only at the insistence of the wife of the deceased. While Swathi was arrested, Rajesh was taken into custody from a Hyderabad hospital after the doctors certified him fit to be discharged on Thursday.
When produced before the media by Nagarkurnool DSP Laxminarayana on Friday, Rajesh said he had suggested to Swathi that they elope, instead of killing Sudhakar Reddy. However, she insisted that they got rid of Sudhakar Reddy because she was attached to her parents and her children.
After the murder of Sudhakar Reddy, Swathi injured Rajesh with acid first, but as the burns were not convincing enough, she asked him to put his face on a burning stove for more burns to conceal his identity.
She also assured him that she would bear all the expenses of the plastic surgery treatment which could cost from Rs 25 to Rs 30 lakh. Rajesh confessed that he had physical relationship with Swathi for over two years. He claimed that Swathi hatched the plan from killing Sudhakar Reddy to trying to mask her paramour’s identity.
Laxminarayana said Swathi first called Sudhakar Reddy's cousin Arvind Reddy and sought his help in taking her ‘husband’ for treatment. She wanted to ensure that Arvind was convinced that Sudhakar Reddy had suffered serious burns. At first, they took Rajesh, who was passed off as Sudhakar Reddy to a private hospital and later to a government hospital for further treatment.
After seeing Rajesh's face, Sudhakar Reddy's mother and brother grew suspicious about his identity. During the treatment, Rajesh refused to take the mutton soup supplied by the hospital and that proved his impersonation. They lodged a complaint with the police, following which the cops interrogated Swathi who spilled the beans, the DSP said. Laxminarayana said that an iron rod, syringe, a dupatta and a spade were among some of the items used to commit the offence that were seized.
