15-year-old's evidence in matricide case leads to conviction of accused

Hyderabad: The testimony of a 15-year-old boy, an eyewitness when his paternal uncle killed his grandmother at Sadasivpet in August 2022, resulted in proving the guilt of the accused in the court.

Based on his evidence, which corroborated with other evidence presented in the court by the prosecution, the Principal District and Sessions Judge of Sangareddy, K. Prabhakara Rao, sentenced the accused Sara Paramesh Goud to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and pay a fine of '100, said public prosecutor Jonna Srinivas Reddy.

Paramesh killed his mother Sara Manemma after she refused to give him money for buying alcohol. Paramesh was the youngest of four sons of Sayanna and Manemma. On the day of the incident in August 2022, he had a quarrel with his parents while demanding money, which they refused. Later in the evening, one of his nephews returned home from school and asked Sayanna about Saremma.

Sayanna told the boy, then studying SSC, that she was not responding for a long time. On being told, the boy went inside the house from the rear entrance and saw Paramesh hitting Sayamma with a stick. She was lying in a pool of blood. Later on a complaint from the boy’s father, Sadasivpet police registered a murder case and arrested Paramesh.

The case was chargesheeted in October 2022 and the court took up trial on August 1, 2023. The court completed the trial in less than 30 hearings and delivered its verdict on Friday.