After the Andhra Pradesh police identified the charred body found in a suitcase in Tirupati as that of Bhuvaneswari, an employee of an IT major in Hyderabad, her husband Maramreddy Sreekanth Reddy has emerged as a prime suspect with the discovery of a CCTV footage.
Bhuvaneswari was missing and her charred body was found near the SVRR Government General Hospital five days ago.
The couple lived in Tirupati with their 18-month-old daughter as Bhuvaneswari was working from home due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Sreekanth Reddy, an engineer by education, was associated with an online organization that fights corruption. He has been unemployed for the last few months.
The CCTV footage shows Sreekanth bringing in a suitcase into their apartment complex, holding his daughter with one hand, and rolling the suitcase with the other. The police have sent samples for forensic examination. Every part of the body had been burnt except some bones and the skull.
Sreekanth, who is absconding, is reported to have told relatives that his wife had died of Covid-19.