Elderly parents of Telangana doctor killed in US may not see his body

HYDERABAD: When Nagireddy Achutha Reddy, a practising psychiatrist in Kansas (US), came to meet his aged parents in his hometown in Nalgonda district of Telangana in January, little did they expect that they were seeing him for the last time.

Reddy, 57, was stabbed to death by his patient Umar Rashid Dutt near the Holistic Psychiatric Services building on Carriage Parkway in Wichita at 7.22pm local time on Wednesday.

According to his family members in Miryalguda, his body is unlikely to be brought to his hometown where his parents – N Bhadra Reddy (87) and Parijaatha (80) – live.

“His wife Beena, three children, and his in-laws – all settled in the US over three decades ago. If the body has to be brought here, all of them have to accompany it, which looks improbable,” one of his cousins said.

“It appears they want to cremate the body in the US itself.”

His nephew Gautam, however, said the family members would try to convince his wife and in-laws to bring the body to Miryalguda.

“The old parents cannot go to the US and it is quite natural that they want to have a last glimpse of their son,” Gautam told the Hindustan Times. “The postmortem formalities are going on at present. We shall talk to my aunt and others later and take a decision,” he said.

Reddy’s parents got a call from the United States on Thursday morning, saying their eldest son was killed by 21-year-old Umar Rashid Dutt.