The sensational ‘Face Swap’ murder case was still making the news a month after a wife conspired with her paramour and killed her husband Sudhakar Reddy with a sinister plan to replace him with her paramour Rajesh.
The parents of the victim Sudhakar Reddy on Thursday met the Nagarkurnool district Superintendent of Police Sanpreet Singh and sought police protection.
Sudhakar Reddy’s parents Narasimha Reddy and Sumatamma along with other relatives met the SP and expressed apprehension that there was a threat to their lives from Swathi, the prime accused in the murder case. “There is also a threat to our grand children from her”, Narasimha Reddy said.
The incident of Swathi murdering her husband on the intervening nigh of November 26 and 27 has left the Nagarkurnool town of Telangana shell shocked.
The parents also pleaded financial assistance from the Government said the murder of their son left them in penury. “Moreover we also had to incur huge expenses on the treatment of Rajesh thinking he was our son”, Sumatamma said.
It may be recalled here that a housewife Swathi Reddy had conspired along with her paramour Rajesh and killed her husband Sudhakar Reddy. However her sinister plan to bring in Rajesh in place of her husband by making him under go plastic surgery failed as his parents became suspicious with the behavior of Rajesh.
As part of the plan Swathi had disfigured Rajesh’s face by pouring petrol on him and burning and admitted him to hospital claiming him to be Sudhakar Reddy. While he was undergoing treatment at DRDO Apollo Hospital that Sudhakar Reddy’s parents and relatives became suspicious about his identity and alerted the police. After comparing the injured person’s finger prints with the biometric data of Sudhakar Reddy with the help of his Aadhar card the police made a break through and arrested both Swathi and Rajesh.
Police said Swathi had an affair with a physio therapist Rajesh for over two years and decided to kill her husband to bring Rajesh in her place.
While both of them were now in judicial custody awaiting the prosecution, the police were investigating the case to file a charge sheet. SP Sanpreet Singh assured Sudhakar Reddy’s parents all possible help and protection. “We will see to it that the accused are convicted on the basis of solid evidence we are gathering and punished by the law”, he said.
Swathi’s parents linga Reddy and Padma have also disowned her and have declared that they will not have anything to do with her even in future. Swathi and Sudhakar Reddy’s two children Darshini and Harshit Reddy were staying with their maternal parents.
Meanwhile Nagarkurnool police which had taken Swathi in its custody for two days for questioning produced her in the local court which again sent her to judicial custody on Thursday.
Intriguingly the accused was shifted to jail in a public transport bus instead of a police vehicle and during the journey she faced the wrath of other co passengers.
In a reflection of the public anger against her for murdering her husband and trying to bring her paramour home as husband, the common people were seen haranguing and abusing her during the journey.
According to the police sources Swathi was questioned for two days from various angles about the murder of her husband, the motive behind the crime and the role of her paramour in it.