VIJAYAWADA: Even as they struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, the family of murdered Indian student V S Jyothirmayi on Friday denied she had an affair with Nalluri Nagaraju Kumar, the murder suspect.
Jyothirmayi's sister Deepti Priya said she was not aware of her sister living with Nagaraju at the Handsworth apartment, Birmingham. "The news that she was sharing her apartment with a boy came as a shock to us," Deepti said Jyothirmayi's parents believed she was living with some girls.
"My sister may have allowed Nagaraju to share her apartment out of trust. But I don't think she was in love with him," Deepti said. She said her sister never told her about the boy when she was visiting home eight months ago.
Her aunt Lakshmi, who described Jyothi as a "bright student", suspected that Nagaraju might have harassed her niece to reciprocate his love for her. Another family member said she might have spurned Nagaraju's advances which led to her gruesome killing.
According to the family, Jyothi was scheduled to travel to Paris on an educational trip next week. They suspect that Nagaraju could have demanded Jyothi to accept his love before leaving for Paris, got annoyed when she rejected his proposal and killed her in a fit of rage. "She never took any decision without the permission of the family, which struggled to send her abroad for higher studies," said a friend of Jyothi's father V Naga Saibaba.
The family expressed their inability to travel to Birmingham and urged the state government to help them in bringing her body back home.
"We are not in a position to travel to Birmingham even if the government makes arrangements," Saibaba said. A family friend said a spokesperson of the Birmingham police called Saibaba on Friday and informed him about Jyothi's murder.
A representative of Wolverhampton University where Jyothi was studying also spoke to the family in the morning and conveyed his condolences.
Courtesy: timesofindia
Jyothirmayi's sister Deepti Priya said she was not aware of her sister living with Nagaraju at the Handsworth apartment, Birmingham. "The news that she was sharing her apartment with a boy came as a shock to us," Deepti said Jyothirmayi's parents believed she was living with some girls.
"My sister may have allowed Nagaraju to share her apartment out of trust. But I don't think she was in love with him," Deepti said. She said her sister never told her about the boy when she was visiting home eight months ago.
Her aunt Lakshmi, who described Jyothi as a "bright student", suspected that Nagaraju might have harassed her niece to reciprocate his love for her. Another family member said she might have spurned Nagaraju's advances which led to her gruesome killing.
According to the family, Jyothi was scheduled to travel to Paris on an educational trip next week. They suspect that Nagaraju could have demanded Jyothi to accept his love before leaving for Paris, got annoyed when she rejected his proposal and killed her in a fit of rage. "She never took any decision without the permission of the family, which struggled to send her abroad for higher studies," said a friend of Jyothi's father V Naga Saibaba.
The family expressed their inability to travel to Birmingham and urged the state government to help them in bringing her body back home.
"We are not in a position to travel to Birmingham even if the government makes arrangements," Saibaba said. A family friend said a spokesperson of the Birmingham police called Saibaba on Friday and informed him about Jyothi's murder.
A representative of Wolverhampton University where Jyothi was studying also spoke to the family in the morning and conveyed his condolences.
Courtesy: timesofindia
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