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Woman, daughter hacked to death

Staff Reporter

MACHILIPATNAM: A 53-year-old woman and her 27-year-old daughter were hacked to death at their residence in Chilakalapudi near here on Tuesday. The police suspected the involvement of three younger brothers of the aged woman in the offence and took them into custody.

The Chilakalapudi police said that they found the bodies of Chittibomma Vanajakshamma and her daughter Vannamreddi Durga in a pool of blood in their house and a stick and a sickle in their hands. Durga was married to Nagendra of the same village a decade ago and the couple had two daughters -- Alekhya (8) and Vijaya (4). Nagendra left home with milk cans in the morning, while the girls were playing outside the house when the two women were attacked.

The police said that Vanajakshamma had a dispute with her three younger brothers -- Bolem Ramu, Konda and Babu -- over her share in the ancestral property. When the brothers refused to give a share worth Rs. 3 lakhs to her, Vanajakshamma approached the local Court. Recently, the Court delivered a verdict in her favour.

The police said that Alekhya told them that Ramu, Konda and Babu, along with a few others attacked her grandmother with sticks and sickles. When her mother went to the rescue of their grandmother, the accused also attacked her, the girl told the police.

The bodies were sent to the Government hospital here for a post-mortem.

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