Matta Rajesh Kumar will have to spend the rest of his life in prison after his sentencing by a local Court on Monday for murdering a couple and leaving their daughter injured over a year ago in Rajahmundry.
Rajesh had jumped over the boundary wall, barged into the bathroom of Narla Anusha and attacked her with her knife. Her parents, who tried to save her, were repeatedly attacked by the crazed youth who managed to snuff out their lives on that fateful evening of September 17, 2009.
The incident had led to an outcry from across the state, with the then chief minister K Rosaiah terming the incident as &lsquo;barbaric&rsquo; and atrocious.
The reason behind Rajesh resorting to the attack was that he was in &lsquo;love&rsquo; with Anusha, who was 16-year-old at that time. The teenager had spurned Rajesh&rsquo;s advances and her parents had complained to the police about the harassment.
The police had then arrested Rajesh, but he was released on bail after a four-day stint in prison.
Rajesh did not take too kindly to the complaint and the continued resistance by Anusha to his amorous advances. He decided to &lsquo;teach her a lesson&rsquo; by attacking her, and this &lsquo;decision&rsquo; had made him resort to the attack.
The girl&rsquo;s mother Sathyavati was the first to die on that day, when she tried to save her daughter by coming between Rajesh and Anusha.
She was stabbed repeatedly. Her screams alerted her auto-rickshaw driver husband, who rushed in, only to be stabbed again by the crazed youth.
Anusha by then alerted her neighbours who called an ambulance which took her parents to hospital.
By that time, bother her parents were dead, leaving Anusha and her two younger sisters orphans.
Anusha had sought the death penalty for Rajesh during her deposition, but on Monday said that "I will not get back my parents but at least justice has been done."
Meanwhile, Rajesh's defense lawyer said that he would file an appeal in the High Court over the sentence.

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Anusha stalking case: Rajesh gets life for killing victim's parents

Devotees who throng to the hill shrine of Lord Venkateshwara at Tirumala were shocked on Friday after the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam increased the prices of all prasadam except the famed laddus, by three to seven times.
According to the TTD authorities, the prices of Jilebi has been increased from the present Rs 25 to Rs 70, the rates of the &lsquo;Vada&rsquo; has been hiked to Rs 25 from the Rs 4 earlier and the Muruku will now cost the devotees a whopping Rs 30, as against the earlier Rs 4.
As a consolation, prices of the world famous laddu have been spared from being raised. The small laddu continues to be available at the present rate of Rs 25 and the large laddu at Rs 100.
The new prices have come into force from January 28.
The TTD also defended its decision to hike the prices by saying that this has been necessitated following the increase of material and production costs of the prasadams. They also said that the decision has long been overdue.
The price hike resulted in grumblings among the devotees who said that the TTD can easily afford to sell the prasadams at a loss since the temple&rsquo;s hundi collections alone net it anything from Rs 1 to 2 crore each day.
The devotees also grumbled that by hiking the prices, the TTD is commercializing the devotion and &lsquo;exploiting&rsquo; the devotees.&nbsp;

TTD raises prices of prasadams, spares laddu

The North America Telugu Association (TANA) will present the prestigious Lifetime Achievement awards to six personalities in the state for their contributions in various fields on January 29 at Ravindra Bharati auditorium.
Deputy Speaker of State Assembly Nadendla Manohar will be the Chief Guest for the occasion along with Guests of Honour RV Ramana Murthy, Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy and special invitees such as Dr Varaprasad Reddy, Dr Guruva Reddy, Thammareddy Bharadwaja, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Saripalli Kondala Rao.
Six famous personalities have been chosen to receive the lifetime achievement awards.
&nbsp;They are Dr C Narayana Reddy, Dr N Chinasatyanarayana, Dr Ramanaidu, Dr Nerella Venu Madhav, Dr Sreeramulu, Dr Uma Ramarao.
The event will also have cultural programs such as dance by Jayalakshmi, &lsquo;Vibhaavari&rsquo; from Geeta Madhuri, Vasanth and team.
A special program is there by Krishnudu of &lsquo;Vinayakudu&rsquo; fame while noted celebrities like Ghazal Srinivas, Flute Nagaraju would be contributing their programs as well.

TANA to honour 6 eminent personalities on Jan 29

Actor Ravi Teja's brothers; Raghu Babu and Bharat, who were caught by the Task Force in Hyderabad for their allegedly buying banned drugs, on Wednesday lambasted the media for taking photographs while they were coming out of the City Crime Station.
The two accused had been summoned by the police for questioning in the case.&nbsp;When photo journalists from the electronic and print media tried to take photographs of the two accused in the sensational case they lashed out at the scribes and refused to answer questions.
The two accused termed the scribes as `Idiots&rsquo; and `Dirty fellows&rsquo; and boarded their car and sped away from the spot.&nbsp;The media persons meanwhile tried to explain to the two brothers that they were only discharging their duty. The brothers however were in no mood to listen and kept their harangue, even as they boarded their car and left the scene.
The two brothers, along with one of their friend Nagesh, and a Nigerian National Cheema Claymen, were nabbed red-handed by the police late on the night of August 20. They were arrested on charges of buying banned drug cocaine. They were later released on conditional bail.&nbsp;Cheema Claymen is accused of being their supplier.
The arrests of the four in the drug case led to shock and disbelief especially in the light of their relationship to one of the top actors from the Telugu film industry.&nbsp;City Police Commissioner AK Khan had then told media persons that the incident was one amongst the spate of cases in which the kin of the rich and famous were falling prey to the drug suppliers and indulging in the highly addictive habit.

Raviteja Bro's called them 'Idiots'

Finally, Indian Government recognized the finesse in our stylish wristy batsman VVS Lakshman and awarded him with Padma Shri for the year 2011. The invaluable services rendered by Lakshman and especially his heroism in fourth innings of test matches handed the victory to Indian team many a times placing Indian Test Squad as Number One in the World. Though it was a bit late but contribution of Lakshman to Indian cricket is rightly rewarded.
Few of the prominent names awarded with Padma Awards are as follows:
Padma Shri: VVS Lakshman, Tabu, Imran Khan,&nbsp; Padma Bhushan: Waheeda Rehman Padma Vibhushan: Khayyum
Wait for few more minutes as we update you the final list.

Anusha stalking case: Rajesh gets life for killing victim's parents

TTD raises prices of prasadams, spares laddu

TTD raises prices of prasadams, spares laddu

TTD raises prices of prasadams, spares laddu

TANA to honour 6 eminent personalities on Jan 29

TANA to honour 6 eminent personalities on Jan 29

TANA to honour 6 eminent personalities on Jan 29

TANA to honour 6 eminent personalities on Jan 29

Raviteja Bro's called them 'Idiots'

Raviteja Bro's called them 'Idiots'

Raviteja Bro's called them 'Idiots'

VVS Lakshman gets PADMA SHRI