Guntur, February 02: In what has come as a rude shock to her family members, the charred body of eight-year-old Naga Vaishnavi, who was kidnapped 60 hours ago from Vijayawada, was found in a boiler at a Nuts and Bolts Manufacturing Unit -Sarada Industries – in Auto Nagar here on Monday.
The most disconcerting aspect of the brutal murder was that it was allegedly masterminded by Vaishnavi’s father Prabhakar Rao’s first wife Venkatramanamma’s nephew Srinivas Rao who owns the Sarada Industries.
Vaishnavi, police suspect, may have been killed soon after she was kidnapped three days ago. The incident evoked sharp reactions from the people in the State who demanded befitting punishment to the perpetrators of the dastardly act. Based on information given by some of those picked up, police teams searched the premises of Sarada Industries and found the charred remains of the little girl in a boiler. Guntur Superintendent of Police Sankarabrata Bagchi rushed to the spot. Forensic experts confirmed that the body was that of Vaishnavi.
According to Vijayawada City Police Commissioner KV Rajendranath Reddy, after killing the car driver and kidnapping Vaishnavi, the kidnappers took her in another car to Tadepalli from where they headed to Guntur. Even before reaching Guntur, which probably took them about 45 to 50 minutes, they killed her and took her body to the Sarada Industries. Probably to wipe out evidence, they threw it in the boiler.
–Agencies