GUNTUR: A man murdered his lover by slitting her throat with a sharp knife at Islampet in Tenali of Guntur district. The accused was identified as Satyanarayana. He left his wife due to family disputes and was living alone at Tenali.
According to Tenali I Town Circle Inspector M Srinivasa Rao, Bitra Jyothi (24), and Neetikutla Satyanarayana were in a live-in relationship for the past five years. Meanwhile, her parents started bringing matches for her.
Satyanarayana was residing at Rajula Colony in Tenali and Jyothi too used to live there before her parents shifted from the colony.
While Jyothi’s parents went to Eluru to fix the marriage, Jyothi called Satyanarayana to home and asked him to marry her. Satyanarayana refused to marry her and slit her throat suspecting her fidelity. Jyothi’s parents lodged a complaint with the police. The body of Jyothi was shifted to Tenali government hospital for postmortem.