Hired Killers Attack Wrong House In Anakapalli District

Visakhapatnam:Anakapalli police have taken five suspects into custody in a failed murder-for-hire case wherein a totally unrelated person ended up getting assaulted at his residence.

The case registered under Section 109(1) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita at the S. Rayavaram Police Station uncovers a tangled network of marital conflicts and financial disputes.

Police sources said the murder had been planned by Medisetti Nookeswari (26), who felt trapped in a legal case of divorce from her husband for the last three years. A local journalist Rudra had taken money and 6.5 tolas of gold from Nookeswari to support her in legal matters against her estranged husband. But Rudra neither helped get the divorce nor returned the money and gold.

Following this, Nookeswari, along with her purported lover Barre Pydiraju (44), allegedly engaged three young men to eliminate Rudra in Thimmapuram village.

On July 11, 2025, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Nookeswari and Pydiraju took the hired killers Sagar Samiyelu (19), Kesarapudi Janu Prasad (20), and Rayudu Raju Kumar (18) to the Addu Road Bridge and pointed to Rudra’s home, promising to pay ₹1 lakh once the killing had been done.

The three drank alcohol and at approximately 9:30 p.m. mistakenly entered the wrong house, where they found two women and a man sleeping. The hired killers started assaulting the man, 41-year-old Egalapati Nageswara Rao, with an iron rod.

When the women cried out, the attackers fled the scene. They then met Nookeswari and Pydiraju insisting on payment after asserting that they had completed their task. Nookeswari then called Rudra to check out and found that the assailants had targeted the wrong person.

Police investigations revealed that Pydiraju, a ration vehicle driver, has connections with known criminals. The three hired attackers too had cases registered against them at Tuni Rural and Tuni Town police stations for theft, dacoity and other criminal offenses.