The wife of a senior homoeopathic doctor was found murdered on Sunday morning at her residence, a few metres away from the police sub-control in Langer House. The body of P. Raja Kumari, 54, was found by her husband, homoeopathic physician P. Nageshwar Rao, 71, at their house in Padmanabhanagar Colony, near Lakshminagar Chowrasta. A plate of idli lay near the victim, and the television set was on. There were no injuries on her body except traces of blood from her nose, a scratch mark on her left ear and another on her neck.
The police said that the murder took place at around 10.30 am when she was alone at her house. Four tolas of gold, including her gold chain, two pairs of bangles and earrings were missing. The culprits did not touch anything else except gold. According to Langer House inspector N.B. Ratnam, Dr Rao had retired as an assistant account officer in the Accountant General’s office in 2002. He had married Raja Kumari after the death of his first wife; he has four children, two sons and two daughters, from his first marriage.
Dr Rao has been practising as a homoeopathic physician after his retirement. On Sunday, he had left home at around 9 am to attend a free medical camp at Vivekananda Colony in Mehdipatnam on behalf of the Satya Sai Trust. He returned home at around 12.15 pm and found his wife’s body and alerted relatives and the police. The police suspects that the intruders might have sneaked into the house through the rear door which is usually kept open. A Clues team and a dog squad visited the scene. A murder case has been registered and investigations are on.
Sources said the couple had got a new domestic help who reportedly did not turn up on Saturday and Sunday. Dr Rao said that her name was Amrutha but wasn’t aware of her address or any other details. “We are suspecting it to be a case of murder as her gold is missing and two of her bangles were found broken. Somebody known to them might have committed the crime,’’ said Mr P. Mahesh Goud, Langer House SI.
The murder has rattled residents of the colony. Ms Tenugutalli, who has been living in the colony since 1984, said that though there had been thefts earlier, this was the first murder in the colony.