Srinivas Kuchibhotla murder: Wife demands answers from US government

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Feb 25, 2017, 12:53 IST

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Srinivas Kuchibhotla murder: Wife demands answers from US government

HYDERABAD: Sunayana Dumala, the wife of slain Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas has demanded answers from the US government for the killing of her husband.
“I need an answer. I need an answer from the government. I need an answer from everyone out there. That what is that there are gonna to do stop this hate crime,” she said speaking to the media in Kansas. Meanwhile in Hyderabad, IT & NRI affairs minister K T Rama Rao of Telangana state said the government would work with the Ministry of External Affairs to offer support to the distress.“Shocked and anguished at the spate of attacks in US. Vamsi last month, Srinivas and Alok now,” the minister tweeted.
It may be mentioned here that a student Vamshi Mamidala who belonged to Telangana had been gunned down in Milpitas, US a couple of weeks ago. In the incident that took a few days ago in Olathe, Kansas, US, Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead and his friend Alok Madasani was injured when a gunman opened fire in what is being described as a hate crime.
Sunayana Dumala was met by officials of CGI Houston after the shoot out and assured all help to transport the body of Srinivas back home to India.

Regaining her composure Sunayana who spoke to the media in Olathe said her husband would have celebrated his 33rd birthday on March 9. “He did not deserve a death like this. In two weeks he would have celebrated his 33rd birthday. March 9 in his birthday. I don’t know what to say. We prayed many times,” she said adding that in they had been following newspaper reports about ‘some kind of shooting happening everywhere’.
She said they had always wondered how safe they were. "And I especially, I was always concerned. Are we doing the right thing in staying in the US?" she asked.
Srinivas assured her that ‘only good things happen to good people’. “That guy came back and he did what he hade to do. He has taken a life,” she said about the gunman who opened fire at Austin’s Bar and Grille in Olathe, Kansas.
Sunayana described her husband Srinivas as a ‘very lovabe soul’.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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