Vijaywada: An Indian woman and her seven-year-old son were found dead in 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 ANI: “We suspect that they have been murdered following an affair of my son-in-law with another woman there.”
Hanumantha Rao and Sasikala both were software professionals. Rao works in CTS and has been living in New Jersey for nine years. Sasikala used to work from home.
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The couple had been living in the US for nine years.
Y Sambasiva Rao, a member of 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.
In February this year, 32-year-old IT professional Srinivas Kuchibhotla and his friend injured when a man named Adam Purinton opened fire at the duo at a bar in Kansas.
Kuchibhotla was from Telangana and Purinton allegedly yelled 'go back to your country' at the Indian duo before opening fire.
In early March, an Indian-origin store owner was shot dead outside his home in South Carolina and two days later, a Sikh man was non-fatally injured after being shot at in Kent, Washington.
