Hyderabad: A 33-year-old tribal woman was allegedly raped and murdered in Telangana’s Medak district, police said on Sunday.
The woman, a daily-wage labourer and mother of five, was found lying unconscious under a tree in Kulcharam mandal on Saturday morning with a severe head injury. Locals immediately alerted the police.
She was first taken to a local hospital and later referred to Hyderabad for advanced treatment, but succumbed on the way on Saturday night.
Police suspect that she was gang-raped and later bludgeoned with a boulder. Based on her husband’s complaint, a case of rape and murder has been registered, and an investigation is underway.
The victim’s body has been sent for autopsy, while police teams are scanning CCTV footage from nearby areas to identify the culprits.
Engineering Student Dies by Suicide in Hanumakonda
In a separate incident, a 19-year-old engineering student, J. Keerthana, allegedly died by suicide in Hanumakonda district after being unable to cope with academic pressure.
Keerthana, a first-year B.Tech student at a private engineering college in Hyderabad, had recently told her parents that she was struggling to understand lectures and feeling homesick.
Her parents had called her back home to Gopalpur village in Elkathurthy mandal, and were planning to transfer her to another college.
However, on Saturday, while she was alone at home, Keerthana hanged herself. Her father, Krishnakar, found her and called a local medical practitioner, who declared her dead.
Police have registered a case of unnatural death based on the father’s complaint and sent the body for post-mortem examination.
Keerthana was the youngest of three siblings.