Tirupati: Tirupati police identified a dead body of a software engineer (27), in a suitcase at Tirupati in AP. The police identified the dead body who is working at Cognizant in Hyderabad.

Tirupati Urban SP Ramesh Reddy said CCTV footage showed Sreekanth Reddy handling a big red suitcase into their apartment complex and then wheeling it out a while later.

Sreekanth bought a big suitcase at Reliance Mart and that is suspected to have been used for the purpose of packing the body. The body was 90% burnt.

He later tried to burn the body, he said. The footage shows Sreekanth bringing in a suitcase into their home, holding his toddler-daughter and rolling the big suitcase with the other hand. Later, he is seen struggling to hold the baby and also rolling out the suitcase, now apparently heavy.

Sreekanth Reddy gave a complaint to the police that his wife Bhuvaneshwari is missing. He had claimed that she had died due Covid – 19. The couple was living in Tirupati with their 18-month old daughter.

Bhuvaneshwari was working from home due to the pandemic. Sreekanth Reddy, an engineer, was associated with an online organisation that fights corruption but he had been unemployed for some months.

The police have sent samples for forensic examination. Every part of the body was burnt except for some bones and the skull.