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Telangana school principal stabbed 27 times at home
A 48-year-old school principal, Kallu Roopa Reddy, was found dead with 27 stab wounds at her home in Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Wednesday. Police said no cash or valuables were missing, ruling…
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A 48-year-old school principal, Kallu Roopa Reddy, was found dead with 27 stab wounds at her home in Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Wednesday. Police said no cash or valuables were missing, ruling out theft as a motive. They suspect the killer was known to her.
Roopa Reddy had returned alone to Kondamallepally on Tuesday from a holiday in Hyderabad. She told colleagues she was expecting friends at home. When she did not report to school on Wednesday, her husband alerted a neighbour who is a sub-inspector. The officer found her body in a pool of blood. A case has been registered on a complaint by her son and investigations are ongoing.
The Indian Opinion
Social media will likely churn out half-baked theories about a ‘conspiracy’ or a ‘targeted attack’ even before police file a charge sheet. The facts so far, no theft, 27 stab wounds, a woman alone after a holiday, point to a deeply personal crime, not a random one. Yet the instinct to implicate ‘known persons’ can also be a lazy shortcut. The test will be whether forensic evidence and call records match the police’s working hypothesis before any arrests are made.
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
