HYDERABAD: The five-year old daughter of Cynthia Vechel, a Congolese woman who was throttled to death by her husband Rupesh Kumar Mohanani, was shifted to a state-sponsored children’s rescue home in Kachiguda as per court orders on Wednesday evening, said V Naveen Chand, commissioner of Cyberabad police.
Vechel’s daughter will be produced before the court on Friday at 10:30 am and the issue of her custody will be adjugded based on the Guardian and Wards Act, said Naveen Chand.
Meanwhile, tens of Congolese nationals blocked traffic opposite the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport police station in Shamshabad on Thursday expressing shock and distress at the brutal murder of their fellow national.
Clad in black clothes as a mark of protest, they demanded justice for Cynthia. They raised slogans of ‘Jai Telangana, Jai justice,’ encircling police with placards. No one was booked on the account of protest. Police had a tough time convincing the protesters to clear traffic.
It may be recalled that with the girl in tow, Rupesh Mohanani drove to the city outskirts on Monday to set a bag containing his wife’s severed corpse ablaze when villagers in Madanapally village noticed blood stains on his car and alerted the police. Mohanani has been booked under IPC Sections 302 and 201. He has been lodged in Cherlapally Central Prison.