Nurse Held For Killing Parents Opposed To Her Romance
The nurse fell in love with a person two years ago after developing a friendship with him on Instagram
Hyderabad: Police arrested a nurse who murdered her elderly parents after they opposed her marriage plans with a man she met on social media. The accused, B. Surekha, allegedly misused her profession and killed her parents by administering a high dose of sedative injection.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, DSP Srinivas Reddy said Dharur police solved the double murder within a day. Investigations revealed that Surekha had fallen in love with a man she met on Instagram and wanted to marry him. When her parents objected, she plotted to eliminate them.
On January 24, Surekha returned home with sedatives stolen from the hospital where she worked. That night, she told her mother Lakshmi, who suffered from chronic pain, that she had obtained an injection to help her sleep. Trusting her daughter, Lakshmi agreed, but the high dosage proved fatal. Later, when her father Dasharath returned home, Surekha convinced him he was exhausted from farm work and injected him with the same sedative. Both died in their sleep.
The next morning, Surekha pretended to cry and told neighbours her parents were not waking up. Her brother Ashok grew suspicious and rushed them to hospital, but they were declared dead. Based on his complaint, Dharur police registered a case. Initially suspected to be suicide due to debts, postmortem reports confirmed death by sedative overdose. Surekha was detained, gave contradictory statements, and eventually confessed.
The victims, Nakkali Dasharath, 59, and Lakshmi, 54, were farmers from Yacharam village in Bantwaram mandal. They had married off two daughters, while their son Ashok was studying and helping with farm work. Surekha, the youngest, worked as a nurse in a private hospital in Sangareddy. She has been produced before court and remanded in judicial custody.
