HYDERABAD: Sunday morning began on a shocking note for residents of HIG Colony in Kukatpally, after they discovered one of their neighbours, K. Damodar Goud, lying in a pool of blood with his throat slit and nine stab wounds.

Damodar (28) married to Lavanya for the last four years, has a three-year-old daughter, Navneeta, and used to run a tiffin centre at BHEL.

On Saturday night, Damodar asked his wife to go to her parent's house located close by, saying his friends would be coming home for a party. The party evidently ended on a macabre note.

Seeing bloodstains outside the first floor flat, neighbours peeped in to find blood all over the house. They immediately informed Lavanya who rushed to the house. Meanwhile, the police and CLUES team experts too came in.

Damodar lay dead in a pool of blood in the kitchen. Three beer bottles completely smashed and liquor were spattered all over the house.

Three packets of biryani and the blood-smeared knife used in the offence were also found.

`Tilakam' with blood

Initially, investigators wondered whether the victim was stabbed with broken beer bottles. But the pattern of injuries did not indicate so. The police noticed that someone had applied `tilakam' with blood on a family photograph. However, it was applied only on the photographs of Lavanya and Navneeta.

"The couple had a love marriage. For the last year, Damodar was harassing his wife over petty matters. She would often go to her mother's house to stay," the Kukatpally Inspector Radhakrishna said. The police do not rule out the possibility of the involvement "of someone from Lavanya's side" in the murder.

At least 2 offenders

It is believed there could be at least two persons who went to the victim's house. The investigators said the accused too suffered bleeding injuries while a desperate Damodar tried to resist death. The scene indicated that there was a lot of struggle in the kitchen.

Even as the motive for the ghastly murder is yet to be established, police are baffled over whether it was a pre-planned one or the result of sudden provocation. A motorcycle parked outside the house led to the suspicion that it might belong to the culprits. No one has claimed it so far.

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