By SNV Sudhir
Visakhapatnam, Oct 29, 2012: The grief-stricken mother of software engineer Raghunandan Yandamuri, who has been arrested for the murder of 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and the baby’s grandmother Satyavatamma, in the US on October 22, is shattered, and cannot believe that her son committed such a terrible crime.Yandamuri Padmavthi wants the authorities to permit her to talk to her son.
“After the news about Saanvi’s kidnapping and death and the grandmother’s murder broke, Raghu spoke to me twice. Raghu said he was helping the parents to find Saanvi. Then I came to know through the media that he has confessed to the crime,” Padmavathi said. “If he has really done this, he should be punished. But I want to talk to him once” Padmavathi said.
Padmavathi's husband, who was a constable with the Greyhounds, died in 1997. Since then, she has been working as a junior assistant at the district police office. Raghunandan studied in Visakhapatnam, did his B.Tech from Chilakuripeta in Guntur district and went to the US in 2007 to do an MS.
When she heard that her son was the killer, Padmavathi fell unconscious. “I struggled to bring up my kids. Raghu was intelligent.
He never harmed anyone and used to help poor students,” Padmavathi said.
She says her son never told her about financial problems. “We would have helped him if he had financial problems,” said Raghunandan’s elder brother Satish, who works for an IT company in Hyderabad.
Satish rushed to Visakhapatnam to take care of his mother as soon as news of his brother’s criminal act broke.
Others who knew Raghunandan find it equally hard to believe he could have committed the crimes.Relatives also rubbished media reports that Raghunandan was in love with Saanvi's mother Cenchu Lata and wanted to marry her. Raghu married Komali, his classmate, in April after a long courtship.
Meanwhile, the Indian community and Telugu Associations in the United States expressed shock over the twin murder of toddler Saanvi Venna and her grandmother Satyavathi and couldn’t digest the fact that the killer hailed from the community. “It is a very tragic incident. No one ever thought would happen in Indian community,” Budhavarapu, of the Telugu Association said.
“After the news about Saanvi’s kidnapping and death and the grandmother’s murder broke, Raghu spoke to me twice. Raghu said he was helping the parents to find Saanvi. Then I came to know through the media that he has confessed to the crime,” Padmavathi said. “If he has really done this, he should be punished. But I want to talk to him once” Padmavathi said.
Padmavathi's husband, who was a constable with the Greyhounds, died in 1997. Since then, she has been working as a junior assistant at the district police office. Raghunandan studied in Visakhapatnam, did his B.Tech from Chilakuripeta in Guntur district and went to the US in 2007 to do an MS.
When she heard that her son was the killer, Padmavathi fell unconscious. “I struggled to bring up my kids. Raghu was intelligent.
He never harmed anyone and used to help poor students,” Padmavathi said.
She says her son never told her about financial problems. “We would have helped him if he had financial problems,” said Raghunandan’s elder brother Satish, who works for an IT company in Hyderabad.
Satish rushed to Visakhapatnam to take care of his mother as soon as news of his brother’s criminal act broke.
Others who knew Raghunandan find it equally hard to believe he could have committed the crimes.Relatives also rubbished media reports that Raghunandan was in love with Saanvi's mother Cenchu Lata and wanted to marry her. Raghu married Komali, his classmate, in April after a long courtship.
Meanwhile, the Indian community and Telugu Associations in the United States expressed shock over the twin murder of toddler Saanvi Venna and her grandmother Satyavathi and couldn’t digest the fact that the killer hailed from the community. “It is a very tragic incident. No one ever thought would happen in Indian community,” Budhavarapu, of the Telugu Association said.
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