Matta Rajesh Kumar has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court on Monday for murdering a couple and leaving their daughter injured over a year ago in Rajahmundry.
Rajesh had jumped over the boundary wall, barged into the bathroom of Narla Anusha and attacked her with a knife. Her parents, who tried to save her, were repeatedly attacked by the crazed youth who snuffed out their lives on that fateful evening of 17th September, 2009.
The incident had elicited an outcry from across the state, with the then chief minister K Rosaiah terming the incident as barbaric and atrocious.
The reason behind Rajesh resorting to the attack was that he was in love with Anusha, who was 16 years old at that time. The teenager had spurned Rajesh's advances and her parents had complained to the police about the harassment.
The police had then arrested Rajesh, but he was released on bail after a 4-day stint in prison.
Rajesh did not take too kindly to the complaint and the continued resistance by Anusha to his amorous advances. He decided to 'teach her a lesson' by attacking her.
The girl's mother Sathyavati was the 1st to die on that day when she tried to save her daughter by placing herself between Rajesh and Anusha.
She was stabbed repeatedly. Her screams alerted her husband, an auto driver, who rushed in only to be stabbed by the crazed youth.
Anusha had alerted her neighbours who called an ambulance which took her parents to hospital.
Both her parents died before they reached the hospital.
Anusha, who had sought the death penalty for Rajesh during her deposition, said on Monday, "I will not get back my parents but at least justice has been done."