Visakhapatnam: Six people have been arrested, a day after a 28-year-old woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances, Vizag Police said.
The detained include five men and one woman – between the ages of 20 and 25. In a press conference, ACP Narasimhamurthy confirmed that six accused have been arrested and sent to remand in the case of Akumarthi Shanti Kumari (28) who was found dead in a lodge in Visalakshinagar.
He said that she died by suicide after being attacked and humiliated by her friends. “We identified four beer bottles in the room. She was attacked by Saikiran, Lakshmi Sanjana and Yashwant in at a lodge where they rented rooms. They attacked her after they had an argument with her. After the argument, she felt severely humiliated and hanged herself in room number 118.”
Who are the accused?
The accused are identified as P.Saikumar (24), R.Lakshmi (20), G.V.Yashwant (23), V.Saikiran (24), P.Mani (19) and N.Sai Kumar (25).
He further stated that all of them are from Visakhapatnam and were whiling away time. “Due to lack of discipline, lack of awareness of the consequences of mistakes, neglect of parents etc., all of them acted irresponsibly and caused the loss of a full life,” he said.
He noted that the six of them stayed at a lodge and manipulated the CCTV cameras by turning them to one side. At around 9 o’clock that night, the accused first changed their direction of the CCTV cameras. Later, the hotel staff brought it back to normal, but it was turned aside again at around 11.30 pm.
However, other cameras located elsewhere at the lodge recorded the attack on the woman. Further investigation is underway.