Woman’s body found in canal, suspects taken into custody
Police in India have arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old woman whose dismembered body was found in a canal. Investigators believe the motive may be linked to a financial dispute with a local business owner.
Why it matters
The case underscores issues of gender-based violence and the challenges of criminal investigations in regional India.
The West Zone police of the NTR Commissionerate, who are probing into the murder of a woman, took a few suspects into custody for questioning.
Police recovered the dismembered woman’s body in the VTPS cooling canal, under Ibrahimpatnam police station limits on September 18, 2026.
“We searched the ‘woman missing’ cases in AP, Bhadradri-Kothagudem and Khammam districts in the neighbouring Telangana State. Police identified that the deceased woman was Kalyani alias Durga, a native of Mangalagiri in Guntur district,”said West Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) N.S.V.K. Durga Rao.
A semi-orphan, Kalyani (28), was a native of Chinna Tatinada village in West Godavari district. She stayed in an NGO home at Gannavaram during her childhood and later married a person from Mangalagiri, and the couple had a son. But, due to some family problems Kalyani was separated from her husband and was staying alone.
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