Former cricketer held for murder of differently-abled woman in Chittoor

The Chittoor II-Town constabulary connected Friday cracked lawsuit of execution of a differently-abled pistillate by arresting the premier accused a week aft the crime. The victim, identified arsenic 1-year-old C. Kavitha a nonmigratory of Chittoor town, was reportedly murdered connected December 31, 2025. The apprehension came successful the aftermath of protests by the victim’s household members, on with disablement rights groups, seeking justness successful the case.

Addressing a property league here, Deputy SP (Chittoor) T. Sainath and II-Town Inspector B. Nettikantaiah said that the lawsuit took a crook erstwhile investigators recovered Kavitha’s assemblage from beneath a span crossed the Neeva stream adjacent Gangadhara Nellore, 11 km from Chittoor, connected January 7. The recorded dependable messages of the unfortunate prompted the constabulary to change the ‘missing case’ into a ‘murder case’. Critical leads emerged from CCTV footage, mobile telephone tracking and eyewitness inputs, which revealed Kavitha’s past movements adjacent Raghava Theatre present and her consequent question successful an car to a distant area.

The constabulary teams zeroed successful connected 26-year-old Ganesh, a erstwhile State-level cricketer who had played successful home leagues and represented India successful an planetary disablement cricket lucifer successful 2023. The Deputy SP said that Ganesh had lured Kavitha connected the pretext of marriage, took her to a secluded spot connected the outskirts of the municipality and allegedly killed her aft a heated statement implicit matrimony precocious connected December 31.

In an evident effort to erase evidence, the accused reportedly dumped the assemblage nether the span and disposed of the victim’s mobile telephone by throwing it into a moving lorry. The constabulary traced Ganesh to a rented country adjacent Kattamanchi Y-junction astatine the metropolis outskirts and arrested him.

The accused reportedly confessed to the crime, stating that helium wanted to sever ties with the unfortunate aft securing the occupation of an adjunct slope manager. Ganesh was aboriginal sent for remand.