Mother and Daughter Killed in Nalgonda Orchard Attack

Overview

• The killings, which police reported Sunday at a sweet lime orchard in Ibrahimpet village, left a mother and her adult daughter dead.
• Police identified the victims as Rudraksha Sumalatha, about 40, and her daughter Rudraksha Lavanya, about 20.
• Officers said attackers threw chilli powder into their eyes and strangled them with a dupatta after the pair arrived to harvest fruit around 9:30 a.m.
• Investigators suspect a land dispute with close relatives as the motive, noting that five acres had been registered in Lavanya’s name after her father’s death.
• Anumula police sent the bodies for autopsy at Kamala Nehru Hospital and now report strangulation after early local accounts mentioned hacking, with the assailants still unidentified.