The Madanapalli police in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday arrested a couple who allegedly bludgeoned their daughters to death on Sunday night.
The police had earlier said that V Purushotam Naidu, a lecturer in a government degree college and his wife V Padmaja, a maths teacher in a private school committed these murders on Sunday, 24 January citing superstitious beliefs, and believing that they could be resurrected.
The police had said that the couple were found in a trance in their house, with the bodies of Alekya (27) and Sai Divya (22), and could not immediately be arrested. As per protocol, the duo were taken to the local government hospital for a COVID-19 test.