HYDERABAD: Minutes before
Chinta Yoga Hemanth
was murdered allegedly by his wife’s maternal uncle Yugender with the support of hired assailants, Yugender offered
money
to Hemanth to part ways with his wife Avanthi Reddy, investigators who probed the murder told TOI.
When Hemanth did not comply to his demand while being abducted, Yugender strangulated him. Avanthi and Hemanth met each other 10 years back and had been in a relationship for the last four years. Both their families reside in the same neighbourhood in Chandanagar. Though there was stiff resistance from her parents, she defied her parents and married him.
“When my parents came to know about our relationship, they confined me inside the house for seven months. They even made me quit my job. Finally, one day I escaped from my house and contacted Hemanth using a passer by’s mobile phone,’’ Avanthi told media.
Later, they both went missing. Avanthi’s parents meanwhile lodged a missing complaint at
Chandanagar Police Station
indicating that they felt Hemanth and his family orchestrated the disappearance. “As Hemanth was not available, our family members were harassed by police who kept asking us about the whereabouts of Avanthi,’’ Hemanth’s father Murali Krishna said.
According to him, the couple got married at the sub-registrar’s office and were in hiding until they got their marriage certificate. Later, they went to Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar and informed him about the difficulty they were facing. After which the CP told Chandanagar Police that since Hemanth and Avanthi were adults, the police should not interfere. Accordingly, with both families called to the police station, the parents were told the same. Avanthi told police about her wish to stay with Hemanth. A few days later, her parents asked her to transfer all their properties which were registered under her name back to them. Suspecting that they might face trouble if they resided in Chandanagar along with Hemanth’s parents, the couple secretly shifted themselves to TNGO
colony
.