Naga Vaishnavi Murder case: Accussed gets life imprisonment

Vijayawada, June 14: In a sensational verdict by the court, The three accused in the sensational kidnap and murder case of 10-year-old P Naga Vaishnavi was sentenced to life imprisonment till death by Vijayawada Women Sessions Court on Thursday.

According to the details, The accused Morla Srinivas Rao, Yemperala Jagadeesh, and Pandi Venkata Rao Goud were produced in the court on Thursday afternoon and the judgment was pronounced at 2 p.m. The verdict came after eight years of the court trial.

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The daughter of popular BC leader and liquor trader Palagani Prabhakar Goud, Vaishnavi was kidnapped and murdered on January 30, 2010, while on her way to school with her elder brother in their car.

The accused intercepted the car she was travelling in on motorbikes and stabbed and killed the driver, when he stepped out. As Vaishnavi's brother fled, the accused picked the minor girl up.

The case had resulted in a major outcry in the city, as the police had stated that Vaishnavi suffocated to death, following which the accused dumped her body in an electrical blast furnace in an industrial unit in Auto Nagar in Guntur.

Knowing about the death of Naga Vaishnavi, her father Prabhakar died of heart attack. Cops later arrested Pandi Venkat Rao who hatched out that plan, also Srinivas and Jagadish who executed kidnap and murder.

Pandi Venkatrao was the brother of Prabhakar's first wife. Prabhakar married another women as six children died after taking birth with defects.