A priest from Shamshabad, who earlier complained about his niece missing, to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) police, was arrested for her alleged murder on Friday. The police said that the man was reportedly in a relationship with the woman and allegedly killed her after she asked him to marry her and further threatened to expose their relationship.
According to the police, the accused, Ayyagari Venkat Surya Sai Krishna, 36, a priest who is also a building contractor, reportedly confessed to the murder on Friday. He reportedly confessed that he killed his niece, Kuruganti Apsara, 30, and stuffed her body in a drainage manhole and also used soil and cement concrete to cover it to avoid bad odour.
Krishna got married in 2010. He works as a priest at a temple and also was a building contractor who built temples by collecting donations and maintained a gaushala, ‘nitya annadana satram’ etc. His niece, Apsara, who worked in the cine field, met him in April 2022 when her family visited Krishna’s house in Saroornagar. They reportedly were in a relationship and in March 2023, she asked him to marry her. He stated that she also threatening to expose their affair, said the police.
