Nellore: Mystery shrouds the death of a widow and her two children aged about 8 and 12 years at Alavalapadu in PC Palli mandal of Prakasam district. While police claim that it is a suicide, relatives maintain that she was a very courageous woman and not the one to commit suicide. According to the police, the woman allegedly ended her life along with her two male children by jumping into an farm well at Neredupalli on Wednesday and the incident came to light when the bodies surfaced on Friday.
The woman identified as Gopireddy Krishnaveni 30 was married to Gopireddy Chinna Mohan Reddy of Peddaillapadu village about 13 years back and living with her parents now after Mohan Reddy succumbed to a cardiac arrest six years back. Her children Manish 9 studying in Class V and Madhav studying in Class VII at Viswasanthi School in PC Palli where Krishnaveni also worked as cook till the closure of the school for summer vacations.
She along with her children left home on Wednesday morning after informing her parents that she is going to buy new clothes for the children as the school reopened on Monday. Her parents Subbamma and Rathhaiah got worried and alerted their relatives when she failed to return home on Wednesday even-ing. Neighbours and relatives approached the police as their search on Thursday became futile and there was no word about her whereabouts. Some residents of Neredupalli, who noticed Krishanveni and her kids near Neredupalli cross road on Wednesday evening, searched in the wells nearby and found the bodies floating in the well.
Relatives and in-laws of Krishnaveni said she was very courageous woman and expressed doubts over the deaths. Police led by CI Narasimha Rao came to the spot and shifted the body for postmortem. Ramakrishna registered a case and are investigating.
