Home guard \'kills\' family, ends life
SURYAPET: In a bizarre incident, a home guard committed suicide after forcing his family members, including his two wives and two children, to
consume pesticide-laced soft drink at his house in Suryapet town of Nalgonda district in the wee hours of Thursday.
The home guard, Kodi Saidulu (35), working in the office of the deputy superintendent of police in the town for the last 10 years, resorted to the extreme step after his two wives raised a banner of revolt against him for marrying a third time and making the third woman pregnant.
Sources said Saidulu gave the poison-mixed cold drink to his first wife Venkatamma (30), two daughters Renka (13) and Srivani (12) and his second wife Nagamani (22) before consuming it himself at their house in Mamillagedda. All five of them died.
It is still not clear whether the family members were aware of his intentions to kill them or was it a suicide pact. Police officials could not confirm it and merely said that investigations are on.
According to sources, after he had two daughters from Venkatamma, Saidulu insisted on having a baby boy and married Nagamani. But, Nagamani could not conceive as her uterus was removed. As he was desperate to have a boy, he secretly married another woman.
\"The two wives began quarrelling with him once they came to know that the third woman is carrying his child,\" a source said. The police shifted the bodies to the government hospital for an autopsy. A police official said a probe is on whether the home guard killed them before ending his life or all the five members of the family died under a suicide pact.
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Home guard \'kills\' family, ends life - Hyderabad - Cities - The Times of India