Indian engineer, her son found dead in US home, mother suspects soninlaw

An Indian woman and her seven-year-old son were found dead at their home in New Jersey, according to the family in Andhra Pradesh.

The victims were N Sasikala, 40, and her son Anish Sai, their family in Prakasam district said on Friday.

Sasikala’s husband N Hanumantha Rao found the bodies when he returned home from work on Thursday evening.

In Vijaywada, Sasikala’s mother told a news agency, “We suspect that they have been murdered following an affair of my son-in-law with another woman there.”

Both Hanumantha Rao and Sasikala were software professionals. Sasikala used to work from home.

The couple had been living in the US for nine years.

Y Sambasiva Rao, a member of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly from Prakasam district, spoke to representatives of Telugu Association of North America (TANA) over phone about the incident. He said the mother and her son were strangulated to death.

This is the latest in a series of incidents involving Indian techies. Telangana’s aeronautical engineerwhen Adam W Purinton, who earlier served in the US Navy, shot him in Olathe, Kansas, on February 23.

Vamshi Reddy Mamidala, also from Telangana, was shot dead in Milpitas, California, on February 10 in a garage in his apartment building.

Members in both Houses of Parliament on Friday expressed their concern over the killings and demanded that the matter should be taken up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the American President.

We suspect that they have been murdered following an affair of my soninlaw with another woman there VICTIM’S MOTHER