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Telangana Nurse Arrested Over Parents' Lethal Injection Deaths After Inter-Caste Dispute

Police say she confessed after evidence linked syringes found at the home to drugs taken from her workplace.

Overview

  • Vikarabad police arrested Nakkala Surekha and remanded her to judicial custody following her interrogation.
  • Investigators allege she administered a high dose of an anaesthetic at her parents’ Yacharam home on January 24 under the pretext of treatment.
  • Syringes and vials seized at the scene matched batch numbers from a private hospital in Sangareddy where she worked.
  • Police say the drug, a muscle relaxant used in operating theatres, was taken without hospital authorization and can be fatal in overdose.
  • The case was first registered as a suspicious death, then upgraded after inconsistencies and a confession, and police have stated her boyfriend is not implicated.