Andhra Pradesh murder: Accused mother says coronavirus created by gods to cleanse ‘bad elements’

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Madanapalli police on Tuesday arrested the couple from Andhra Pradesh who killed their two daughters allegedly under the influence of tantriks. The couple was in a state of trance sitting near the bodies of their daughters when the police had reached their home on Sunday. While the father, Dr V Purushotham Naidu, has reportedly come out of the trance, his wife Padmaja continued to behave strangely.

She was singing and dancing and shouting that the novel coronavirus had not originated in China, but created by the gods to cleanse the "bad elements" in the Kali Yug, stated a report in The Times of India.

When police took Padmaja to a hospital for COVID-19 test, she refused to give her sample shouting that she herself was novel coronavirus in human form and there was no need for tests.

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The police have named Naidu as accused No. 1 and Padmaja as accused No. 2 in the case. The couple on Sunday brutally murdered their daughters, Alekhya (27) and Sai Divya (22), in what appeared to be part of occult practice. Speaking to TOI Madanapalli DSP A Ravi Manoharachari said police and doctors had a tough time completing the medical examination as Padmaja acted strangely claiming that she was a form of Lord Shiva.

Both accused were produced before the local magistrate and were later admitted to the psychiatry ward at the SVRR government general hospital at Tirupati.