Police Arrests Guntur Girl's Killer

While many in Andhra Pradesh were celebrating the nation's 75th Independence Day yesterday, a 20-year-old girl became the victim of a horrific attack. She was stabbed to death in broad daylight.

The incident took place in Guntur and the victim was identified as N Ramyasri. A resident of Old Guntur, she was a third year B Tech student at the St Mary's Engineering College in Chebrolu.

Today, the district police announced that they had been able to arrest Ramyasri's murderer.

"Ramyasri, a Dalit girl, was murdered by Sashi Krishna. He is currently in our custody. The victim and Krishna, the accused, had gotten in touch with each other through Instagram, a social media app. They had been chatting with each other for the last six months. Soon after they started talking, however, the accused began to harass Ramyasri at the local bus stand. He began to demand that she enter into a romantic relationship with him. That is when the girl stopped talking to him. She stopped contacting him some two months ago as his behaviour turned from bad to worse. Krishna then began to threat the victim that he would murder her if she refused his advances," the police revealed.

They also said that they had found six stab wounds on the body of the victim and that she had breathed her last while being shifted to the Guntur Government Hospital.

The district police officials then urged the youth to avoid adding unknowns on their social media platforms and also warned them against becoming friends with their contacts. The youth were encouraged to lodge complaints in the face of any harassment as well.

Meanwhile, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu was among the many who expressed their outrage over the incident.

Naidu alleged that it was the failure of the YSR Congress Party government that an innocent girl was murdered in broad daylight on Independence Day.

Claiming that the murder had taken place near Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's camp office, he also said that the murder was enough to once again highlight the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.

The leader added that crimes against women had gone up after the YSRCP came power and that over 500 attacks on women had taken place in AP in the last two years.