Vijayawada. Vijayawada: Palnadu district police have arrested two men in connection with the rape, murder and extortion of a single woman at Oppicherla village under Karampudi Police Station limits on June 26. The two were Ramavath Babu Naik and Banavath Balu Naik, both aged 35 years and residents of Karampudi. Police seized a two-wheeler and items stolen from the women.
Palnadu SP Malika Garg said Karampudi Circle Inspector Srinivas and his team arrested the accused from near the NSP canal on Karampudi-Vinukonda Road. The deceased woman used to run a grocery shop from her house and sometimes sold illicit liquor. She lived alone after a quarrel with her husband.
On Wednesday night around 9.30 pm, Babu Naik and his relative Balu Naik went to the deceased’s house to bring liquor. Some quarrel took place between the woman and the two men. The two hit the woman on the head with a pestle, dragged her to the back room and raped her. They fled after getting their hands on her earnings and the cash kept in the grocery shop, police said. “Police formed five special teams to arrest the accused, deployed sniffer dogs to collect evidence and examined CCTV footage and call data recordings. Miscreants in the area were questioned, following which they were arrested,” he said.
