The death of 22-year-old software engineer B. Deepthi under mysterious circumstances at her residence in Korutla town of Jagtial district on Tuesday turned out to be a murder for gain with the arrest of her younger sister Chandana and the latter’s boyfriend Umar Shaik Sultan.
Korutla police arrested the main accused, B. Chandana, 21, a B. Tech student of a Hyderabad-based private engineering college, and her boyfriend Umar of Hyderabad, and three others, including Umar’s mother, while they were heading to Maharashtra in a car with the stolen gold ornaments on Armoor-Balkonda road on Friday afternoon.
According to the police, Chandana had been in love with Umar, her senior in the engineering college in Hyderabad for the last two years. Police said that Chandana hatched a plot with her boyfriend to decamp with gold ornaments and cash from her house to Maharashtra to get married.
