In a domain on Sunday afternoon, March 23, the Farmer of sixty years Ranga Rao received a call from his daughter Devi (Name changed). She asked where she was and if she had lunch. Ranga Rao told him that he was busy feeding the buffalo and that he would have it later. A few moments of silence later, Devi disconnected the call.
For Rao and his wife Ananta Lakshmi, his daughter was everything. Born for them 12 years after her marriage, she was the anchor of her existence. Brilliant and affectionate, Devi was studying Pharm D. (Doctor of Pharmacy), a six -year course that includes five years of academic study and one year of internship, in a private university in Rajamahendravaram, 90 km from Dict his people; He was just a few months after completing his course. But, it was not so.
Five hours after that call ended, Devi supposedly self-administered a powerful anesthetic in an attempt to finish his life while he was on the Kims-Bollineni hospital in Rajamahendravaravam, where a clinic was happening. Eleven days of fighting later, she was dead.
A suicide note that is believed to be written by the 24 -year -old tells an insidious story of exploitation, manipulation and torture that suffered in silence until it was too much.
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“I wanted to be a software engineer, but I respected my desire to see her as a doctor or pharmaceutical,” says Rao, sitting in his crumbled cattle shed and looking at an old cyclomotor meeting is in a corner. In him, he used to pick up Devi from the bus station nine kilometers away every time he returned home on short vacations in the last six years. He has touched him as his death.
Ranga Rao and Sita Lakshmi, which belong to a backward community, emigrated to the tribal pocket in the district of Eluru from the Chintoor agency in the district of Allara Sitarama Raju after their wedding. The family had some ancestral lands in the Chintoor agency, which Ranga Rao hoped that he would sacrifice a financial security network for the family.
However, when Devi pursued his intermediate, all ancestral property, which fell into the immersion area of the Polavaram irrigation project, was tasks by the government: the compensation was ₹ 7 Lakh. Another plot of family land in Eluru village was also acquired for the correct main channel of the project at the same time. More recently, half of the six cent house site of the family went to the demolition to give way to the 365BB National Highway, a Greenfield road that connects Andhra Pradesh with Telangana.
The couple spent all the compensation and an additional one of ₹ 5 Lakh for the education of Devis Pharm D. “We cultivate any country that would remain and have two buffalo. We managed to reach the end of the month and wait for the arrival of Devi with the title. She promised that she would return to us in April,” says Ranga Rao, the pain in charge of his voice. The couple remembered how Devi spent two days with them lasting their last visit to the town in February.
A call, a revelation
At 6.06 pm that day, the paternal uncle of Devi, N. Narasimha Rao, received a call from his number. At the other extreme, however, there was a soft masculine voice, which would then opillate like Duvada Madhava Rao Deepak, a 37 -year -old assistant general manager at the hospital. A native or district of Srikakulam, the deep suit is established in Rajamahendravaram and is married.
Deepak told Narasimha Rao that Devi had fallen unconscious in the hospital and that he was being treated, a line that repeated the maternal uncle of Devi also A. Bangarraju. “Devi’s blood level has fallen. She is unconscious; he hastened here as soon as possible,” he had told them.
The next day, the parents and relatives of Devi were received by Deepak at the hospital. Suspecting something wrong, his family registered room 802 in the General Neighborhood, which according to the reports had used that day and is close to Deepak’s cabin. There they found a newspaper. By then, Deepak had delivered the mobile phone and Devi’s bag to his parents, but the device’s memory had been cleaned.
Jump a groan
Buried among the work notes in the newspaper there was a five -page suicide letter supposedly written by Devi in Telugu. “I faced extreme physical torture and verbal abuse. I have no more strength to go … he harassed me both physically and sex
Devi says it was sexually used and warned of a terrible consequent if it was revealed to someone. “I have this decision tasks [attempt to end her life] After suffering a lot inside … Death is the only way ahead, but I don’t want that, “he says in the note.
After reading the newspaper, Devi’s family members visited Deepak’s office, where they claim to have found a large half -full refrigerator of several brands. “A belt was also found in his room,” says Bangaraju.
Bangarararaju added that his wife Lahari, a software engineer, successful when recovering four selfies from the Devi mobile phone. Case Diary (Cr. No. 54/2025, March 26), signed by the inspector of Prakash Nagar Circle and the research officer SK. Baji Lal, affirms: “The IC has examined the photos on Devi’s cell phone and discovered that a photo showed the victim while [the] Three other photos showed wounds and brands on their back [back of her neck]. “
The Hindu I have access to the four selfies. In a photo, a circular injury brand is seen; Another shows the injury mark in the healing process.
How everything began
According to the Police, Deepak with Devi for the first time at the wedding of a staff of the Kims-Bollineni hospital about a year ago. Upon learning that he was happening in the hospital, he sacrificed his help to find accommodation, which she accepted.
In July 2024, he moved to a room he found through Deepak’s help. He shared it with four other girls working in several hospital departments. This interested room had the leg divided by the owner of the apartment. The five girls stayed in one portion, and the other portion was Deepak’s temporary office.
The return report presented by the Investigation Officer to the Court, a copy of which it is with The Hindu, He states that six months ago, the defendant (Deepak) found Devi alone in the room and raped her. Later, she promised to marry her and convinced her not to reveal the incident to anyone. Since then, he has exploited it sexually repeatedly.
When it was the way to insist on the marriage, the defendant slapped her several times in the first week of March, read the report.
Room 802
On March 23, Devi and Deepak had a heated discussion by phone about their marriage demand. “In the images of the Hospital’s CCTV camera, the victim is seen with the drug capsule near the bathroom in the neighborhood [room 802]. However, there is no evidence or images of aviaxable CCTV cameras about whether he administered the medicine or someone else administered the medication. It has not yet been invested and established, “said research officer SK. Baji Lal.
“In the images of the hospital’s CCTV camera, the girl looks with the drug capsule near the bathroom in the room [room 802]. However, there is no evidence or footage of the aviable CCCTV camera about whether he administered the medicine or someone else administered the medication “SK. Baji lalCircle inspector
Some of the CCTV cameras in and around room 802, where Devi collapsed after administering the medication, had stopped working six months ago, according to Baji Lal. This was admitted by the medical superintendent of the Kims-Blinteni hospital, Atukuri Mankanta Chowday.
According to the reports, an empty road of the drug, used by the victim, was found by a staff in a corner of the general neighborhood. He has made his legs that the hospital acquired it. “Being a clinical pharmacist, the victim agreed to the drug of our hospital store,” says Mankanta Chowday.
Police noticed the absence of the surveillance of the CCTV chamber in some places at the incident scene. Being Sunday, the victim joined three pharmacies of the Intensive Care Unit in different floors of the hospital, says the police.
Case and protest
On March 24, Prakash Nagar police reserved Deepak for criminal intimidation charges (Section 351 (2) of the BNS and sexual harassment (Section 75). In the midst of protests through the Rajamahendravaram and after the victim’s parents, Fosteed Fosteed Case Fosteed Fosteed the next day when including the charges of rape and stalking.
Within a week of the incident, Devi was Close Beer Brain dead and was fine in the fan. “The victim’s health status did not support her to transfer her to any other hospital. Multiple organists, including her liver, were affected,” says PVV Satyanarayana, head of the Department of General Medicine of the General Government (GGH-rajamajamahenda). He had directed the team of doctors who monitored the victim’s health while she was receiving treatment at the Kims-Blolneni hospital.
In the early hours of April 4, the victim breathed at Hal at the end. A post mortem exam was performed at the GGH the same day. The next day, his last rites were held in his town. “We are waiting for the autopsy report,” says Baji Lal.
As the investigation progresses and Devi becomes a memory for their loved ones, a sloping prayer jachated at the foot of the suicide letter summarizes its despair: “I never wanted to be born again [sic]”
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Published – April 11, 2025 08:48 am isth
