'Brutal murder': Man slices and decapitates tenant in cold blood in Hyderabad

In a brutal murder that shockingly resembled the bone chilling Shraddha Walkar case the Hyderabad Police have nabbed a 48yearold male stock trader for allegedly murdering his lady tenant The accused is said to have later chopped the victims body parts and dumped her severed head at a garbage dump near the banks of Musi river in the city on May 17 PTI reportedPolice said the arrest of B Chandra Mohan on Wednesday has helped them piece together some gory details of the murder Primarily he murdered his tenant Y Anuradha Reddy aged 55 on May 12 and allegedly undertook a series of shocking acts to wipe out evidence of the murderAfter stabbing the woman to death the accused is said to have chopped Reddys body parts into six pieces using stone cutting machinesThe man preserved the legs and hands of Reddy in the victims refrigerator while the rest of the body was stuffed inside a suitcase in the house she was living inMohan carried the decapitated head in a black polythene bag and flung it into a garbage dump near the river on May 15 police said adding that he then planned to dispose of one body part at a timeAnuradha Reddy was a tenant living in the ground floor portion in the house owned by Chandra Mohan Deputy Commissioner of Police South East Zone Ch Rupesh saidSome workers of the local civic body noticed the decapitated head of the woman on May 17 and alerted the police who then arrived at the spot Police formed eight teams to investigate the case and a detailed analysis of CCTV footage in the area helped crack the case and nab the accused the DCP saidAs part of the investigation the police analysed the CCTV footage on the route where the severed head was found for almost a week Some suspects were picked up and after verifying the police zeroed in on the accused and after his interrogation it was revealed that he killed the woman Rupesh said On the motive behind the murder the official said there was a dispute over a financial transaction between them and Mohan owed her Rs 7 lakhsAlso readHyderabad man attacked murdered in suspected honour killingThe accused was in a relationship with the deceased woman for the past several years She was a tenant and stayed in the ground portion in his house The deceased used to lend money to known persons on interest basis In 2018 the accused took nearly Rs 7 lakhs from her but did not return the amount in spite of repeated requests by the deceasediquest the DCP saidThe woman was pressurising Mohan for the money due to which he felt disgusted and hatched a plan to eliminate her police said On May 12 Mohan picked up quarrel with the woman on the issue of paying her amount and allegedly attacked her with a knife and inflicted stab injuries over her chest and stomach resulting in her spot death police said adding that Mohan then searched online on how to dispose of the bodyHe decapitated the victims head and kept it in a polythene bag and separated the legs hands from the body by cutting them with stone cutting machinesSubsequently the accused brought phenyl incense sticks perfume spray bottles and regularly applied them over the body parts of deceased to ensure the stench does not spread in the house and in the area police saidMohan took the cellphone that belonged to Reddy and was sending messages to her close contacts in order to make them believe that she is alive and staying somewhere police addedIn an earlier case Aftab Amin Poonawala the prime accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case was arrested in November 2022 about six months after allegedly killing his livein partner Shraddha Walkar He had chopped her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhis MehrauliPoonawala later disposed of the body parts over several weeks in various places in and around Delhi police had saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever