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.