KAKINADA: A man killed his two sons, aged six and seven, fearing their future would be bleak in a highly competitive world. Later, he hanged himself and left a suicide note stating that he realised his two sons, who were in upper kindergarten (UKG) and class I, would struggle to establish themselves in a competitive world. The gruesome incident unfolded at Ramanayyapet, in Kakinada town of Andhra Pradesh, on Friday.
Sarpavaram police station inspector B Peddi Raju said the father, Vanapalli Chandra Kishore (31), worked as an assistant at the ONGC office in Kakinada.
“He killed his two sons by tying up their hands and legs and drowning them in two buckets of water. The family is financially stable, so his actions are surprising,” the police officer added.
Kishore had married Tanuja Sai Rani in 2017 and the couple had two sons, Joshith (7) and Nikhil (6), who studied in a nearby private school. Their neighbours said they found the couple to be normal and friendly. As the children were not doing well at school, the parents had decided to shift them to a better school from the new academic year and also made enquiries.
As Friday was a holiday for Holi, Kishore along with his wife and children had gone to the ONGC office at Vakalapudi village, in Kakinada rural mandal, to celebrate the festival with his colleagues. A few minutes after reaching there, he told his wife that he would take the children to a tailor to get new school uniforms stitched. He left her in the office and went out with the children.
When they didn’t return for a long time, she called her husband on his mobile repeatedly, but he did not respond. After some time, Kishore sent a message that he would be back in 10 minutes. But he did not return. A worried Tanuja, along with one of his colleagues, went to their house and found the doors closed from inside.
When there was no response from inside even after loud knocks and calls, Kishore’s colleague called some locals and broke open the main door. While Kishore was found hanging from the ceiling fan in one of the rooms, Joshith and Nikhil were found dead in the bathroom. Their hands and legs were tied and their heads were dumped in buckets full of water.
