AP Shocker: Stalker strangles SBI employee, sets her body on fire

In a shocking incident, an 18-year-old girl was set ablaze after being strangled by a stalker in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district late on Tuesday night, the police said.

According to the Hindustan Times, the accused is in police custody.

Police found the half-burnt body of the girl in an agriculture field at Badanapalli village on the outskirts of Dharmavaram town on Wednesday morning.

The deceased was a contract employee of the State Bank of India. Police suspect that she was killed by a stalker.

According to Dharmavaram (Rural) police inspector P Janardhan Naidu, the parents of the girl approached the police at around 9:30 pm on Tuesday and said that their daughter had not returned home.

“The missing girl’s parents identified the body in the field as that of their daughter,” the inspector said.

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According to HT reports, the victim’s mother told police that Gutti Rajesh had been stalking her daughter for a few days and also forcing her to marry him.

The preliminary investigation revealed that the accused took the victim to the field on the pretext of talking to her.

Meanwhile, police have taken the accused into custody and investigating whether any other accomplices were involved in the heinous crime.

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