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P.W.15, a resident of Rajahmundry, stated that he knew the accused. On 04.09.2009 at about 3.00 or 4.00 PM, the elder brother of the accused, by name Matta Prasada Babu (D.W.6), came and requested him to come to the police station stating that the police had taken the accused there. Thereupon, he and Adabala Rama Krishna Rao (L.W.18) went to the police station at about 7.00 or 8.00 PM. The accused, his brother, his father, P.W.2, her parents, her aunt and some others were present in the station. He said that when they enquired with the Sub- Inspector as to why the accused was taken to the station, he told them that P.W.2 gave a complaint against the accused that he was harassing her. In their presence, the accused handed over the love letters written by P.W.2 to the Sub-Inspector. The Sub-Inspector asked the accused, P.W.2, their parents and the other persons who came there to discuss the matter. In the discussion, the accused was asked to hand over all the love letters written by P.W.2 to him and the accused gave those love letters to the Sub-Inspector. Both parties agreed that the accused should not cause any trouble - okarijoliki okaru pokudadu (one should not go near the other) and similarly, P.W.2 also should not trouble the accused. The father and brother of the accused stated that they would send the accused to Chennai as P.W.2 and her parents were giving frequent complaints against him. A Poochikattu (undertaking)(Ex.P5) was written in the police station. He said that he, Adabala Rama Krishna Rao (L.W.18), the accused, P.W.2 and others signed therein.

In his cross-examination, P.W.20 said that D1 did not present any love letter written by the accused to P.W.2 along with Ex.P2 even though a letter was referred to in Ex.P2. He denied the suggestion that D1 presented the love letter written by the accused to his daughter and the contents thereof showed the love affair between them and that he intentionally suppressed that letter. He denied the suggestion that Ex.P2 was not given at 3.30 PM on 28.05.2009 and that it was prepared on 29.05.2009 just before sending it to Court. He denied the suggestion that a false case was foisted upon the accused in Crime No.166 of 2009.

In his cross-examination by the prosecution, D.W.3 stated that D2 was alive when she was taken to the ambulance as per the record. She was in a critical condition with loss of blood at that time.

D.W.4 is none other than the accused. He stated that he worked in DTDC courier service previously. He said that they resided at Door No.23-17-13, 3rd Street, Lalithanagar, from 2002 to June, 2009. The family of P.W.2 stayed in the adjacent portion of the same house from the year 2007. He and P.W.2 were in love for two years from 2007. Both of them used to exchange love letters. Ex.D12 is the bunch of love letters written by P.W.2, twelve in number. Ex.D13 is the letter written by him on the backside of which P.W.2 wrote her letter. He and P.W.2 used to meet secretly without the elders knowing of their love affair. During that period, P.W.2 was studying in Intermediate in Sri K.R.Womens College, Rajahmundry. Between February, 2009 and April, 2009, both of them had sexual contact five times. In April 2009, while he and P.W.2 were in a compromising position on the terrace of their building, the mother of P.W.2 noticed it at midnight and made a galata with his mother. Thereafter, the mother of P.W.2 did not allow P.W.2 to meet him. P.W.2 was lamenting that her parents were bent upon performing her marriage with some other person. As both of them were making efforts to meet each other, the parents of P.W.2 filed a false case against him on 28.05.2009 in III Town Police Station. The police detained him and sent him for remand in that case. After he was enlarged on bail, as he was attempting to meet P.W.2, the parents of P.W.2 got his family vacated from their portion in June, 2009. They shifted their residence to Annapurnammapeta which was at a distance of two kilometres from the house of P.W.2. After shifting their residence to Annapurnammapeta, he used to come to Lalithanagar and meet P.W.2 once a week. As he was meeting P.W.2, the parents of P.W.2 gave a report against him to III Town Police Station on 04.09.2009. At 9.00 AM on that day, the police took him to III Town Police Station. At about 7.00 or 8.00 PM on that day, his elder brother (D.W.6) along with two BJP Leaders P.W.15 and Adabala Rama Krishna Rao (L.W.18), came to the police station. His brother brought six love letters written by P.W.2 and handed them over to the Sub-Inspector of Police (P.W.19). On seeing those letters, P.W.19 chastised P.W.2 that she ought not to have written such letters when her parents were against her love affair with him. P.W.19 also chastised him for continuing his love affair with P.W.2. The parents of P.W.2 insisted in the police station upon return of all the love letters written by P.W.2 and the photographs that were with him. He returned the photos and the love letters. The Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police drafted the Puchikattu (undertaking) and obtained his signature along with those of his brother and the elders, P.W.15 and Adabala Rama Krishna Rao (L.W.18). In May 2009, his parents arranged a girl for his marriage from their relatives against his wish. After executing the Puchikattu on 04.09.2009, he did not meet P.W.2 and never went to her house. On 16.09.2009 at about 1.00 or 2.00 PM, P.W.2 and her cousin brother (P.W.8) called him by phone to come to Ashoka Theatre near Annapurnammapeta behind their house. When he met them at Ashoka Theatre, P.Ws.2 and 8 asked him to come to the house of P.W.2 on the night of 17.09.2009 stating that the father of P.W.2 wanted to talk to him about their love affair. Hoping that the father of P.W.2 would accept their love and perform their marriage, he went to the house of P.W.2 along with his friend, Palasa Seshu, on his motorcycle. They reached the shop of P.W.9 at about 7.45 PM and purchased a cool drink bottle and Lays chips packet. He and Palasa Seshu met D.W.5 and Srinu at the shop. From there, they moved to the front of the house of P.W.2 and were talking there together. At that time, Raju @ Ravi from the house adjacent to P.W.2 came there and also talked to them. They asked him as to why he had come there and he informed them that he came to the house of P.W.2 on the invitation of her father to talk about their love affair. Those persons also knew of their love affair.

In his cross-examination, the accused stated that he studied up to tenth standard and failed in SSC. He studied in Telugu Medium. P.W.2 studied up to Intermediate in English Medium. He belonged to Yadava Community and did not know whether P.W.2 belonged to Kapu Community. He admitted that P.W.2 knew how to read and write English and could also speak in English. He could only read and write in Telugu. He denied the suggestion that he could not read and write in Telugu properly. He admitted that the father of P.W.2 was running his own auto rickshaw and was leading a dignified life. He denied the suggestion that while he was on bail, he misbehaved with a woman at Pushkaralarevu and that the police filed a case against him in Crime No.20 of 2010 on the file of III Town Police Station. He denied the suggestion that except for his own attempts to love P.W.2 and his intention to marry her, P.W.2 never intended to love him or marry him. He denied the suggestion that as he was harassing P.W.2, expressing his love without reciprocation from her, the police filed a case against him in Crime No.166 of 2009. He denied the suggestion that in the love letters filed by him, there was no mention of the name of P.W.2. He admitted that those love letters did not bear dates. He volunteered that the name Honey in those letters was that of P.W.2. He admitted that in his chief-examination, he did not mention that P.W.2 was also called Honey. He admitted that P.W.2 was the eldest of the three sisters and that she had no brother. He also admitted that in Ex.D13 letter, it was mentioned that P.W.2 was treated better than her three elder sisters and one elder brother. He volunteered that reference to an elder brother and elder sisters was with regard to her cousins. He said that he did not know whether P.W.2 had only a senior paternal aunt and that the paternal aunt had only one son and no daughters. He said that he did not know whether P.W.2 had only one junior paternal uncle who had only one son. He denied the suggestion that between February, 2009 and April, 2009, P.W.2 was aged below 16 years. He said that she was aged 18 years and that he had some more love letters, even after returning six love letters after execution of the Puchikattu (Ex.P5). He denied the suggestion that the letters in Exs.P12 and D13 were recently prepared. He denied the suggestion that P.W.2 never addressed any love letters to him. He said that the parents of P.W.2 never talked to his parents proposing her marriage with him. He said that he did not know the cell number through which P.Ws.8 and 2 called him to come to Ashoka Theatre on 16.09.2009 but a Tata Indicom Mobile belonged to P.W.8. He said that he did not know the dimensions of the rooms of the portion of P.W.2 but the middle room was bigger than the other two rooms. In the middle room, cots, TV, almirah etc., were there. He denied the suggestion that after the room was occupied with the above furniture, there remained only a passage. He denied the suggestion that only three or four people could be accommodated in the middle room. He said that as a delivery boy in DTDC Courier, he was getting a salary of Rs.2,200/- per month. He said that by the time P.W.8 bit him, he did not have a knife in his hands. At the place where P.W.2 and her father sustained injuries, there was no electric light. He denied the suggestion that he had thrown M.O.1 into the site of Varanasi Vamshi. He denied the suggestion that before throwing M.O.1 into the site of Varanasi Vamshi, he caused stab injuries on P.W.2 and her parents. He denied the suggestion that as P.W.1 and others came there, to avoid them seeing the knife in his hands, he threw it in the yard of Varanasi Vamshi. He said that there is a possibility of persons in the upstairs portions and the adjacent portion of P.W.2s house hearing, if four or five persons talk in a loud voice in the middle room of P.W.2s portion. He denied the suggestion that as there is such a possibility of hearing the cries of P.W.2 and her parents when he stabbed them, people rushed to that place. He admitted that in the backyard of P.W.2s portion, there was a bund over the well and also around the coconut tree. He denied the suggestion that one could jump over the backyard of P.W.2s portion easily by putting his leg on either of the bunds. He denied the suggestion that the back wall of the portion of P.W.2 was five feet in height from the side of P.W.2s portion and four feet from the side of Varanasi Vamshis house. He said that it was above six feet on either side. The light in the upstairs portion situated towards the backside of the kitchen illuminates the backyard of P.W.2. He denied the suggestion that he had no capacity to have Rs.10,000/- at a time in lump sum. He volunteered that he used to have office money. He said that the father of P.W.2 did not demand Rs.50,000/- from his parents and demanded from him only. He said that neither he nor his parents had the capacity to pay Rs.50,000/-. He denied the suggestion that the father of P.W.2 was maintaining the family by plying his own auto and had no necessity to demand Rs.50,000/-. He volunteered that now and then he used to lend money to the parents of P.W.2 and that he never obtained any document for such lending. He said that by the time the father of P.W.2 caught hold of him, he did not receive any injury on his person. He denied the suggestion that P.W.2 caught hold of him for some time and in the meanwhile, people rushed there and caught hold of him. He denied the suggestion that he did not enter the house of P.W.2 from the main door and that he entered the backyard by scaling the wall. He denied the suggestion that upon knowing of the offence committed, the people who gathered there beat him. He admitted that when people were beating him with the water bucket, to ward off the blows, he raised his hands. He admitted that the people gathered there tied his legs with a rope and dragged him for some distance. He admitted that had the police not come to that place, the people gathered there would have killed him. He denied the suggestion that his evidence that P.W.8 and his two friends were armed with knives was false and that he deposed so for the first time in his chief examination. He denied the suggestion that he did not state before the Magistrate that when P.W.8, the father of P.W.2 and the friends of P.W.8 attacked him, P.W.2 and her parents sustained injuries. He denied the suggestion that he did not state so before the media and the public. He denied the suggestion that as P.W.2 was superior to him in caste and education, she never thought of loving him or intended to marry him. He denied the suggestion that he had only studied up to third or fourth class. He denied the suggestion that because P.W.2 did not reciprocate his love and as his parents were making efforts to perform his marriage with another girl, he was frustrated and killed the parents of P.W.2 and attempted to kill P.W.2. He denied the suggestion that he wrote some letters expressing his frustration and moved for some days keeping those letters in his pocket. He denied the suggestion that for the first time in his chief-examination, he stated the names of some persons who came along with him on the night of 17.09.2009 up to the house of P.W.2. He denied the suggestion that some unknown person dropped him at the shop of P.W.9 and after he went away, he entered into the house of P.W.2 from the backyard. He denied the suggestion that he concocted a false version regarding the love affair and the occurrence of the incident to save himself from punishment in this case.