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Achutha Reddy, Indian-Origin Doctor Stabbed To Death In Kansas, Cops Arrest Suspect

IANS, 14 Sep, 2017 11:02 AM
    An Indian doctor hailing from Telangana was stabbed to death in Kansas state of the United States, as per the information reaching his family here on Thursday.
     
     
    Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was murdered in his clinic in East Wichita, on Wednesday night. US police has arrested a young man.
     
    Informed sources quoted the US police as saying that the assailant, aged 21, repeatedly stabbed the doctor after a conversation. The alleged assailant was identified Umar Rashid Dutt who, the name suggested, could be from South Asia.
     
     
    When police arrived on the scene, they found Reddy in an alley behind the building.
     
    “A short time after officers arrived, at approximately 7:40, they were dispatched to a suspicious character call at the Wichita Country Club,” said Lt Todd Ojile of the Wichita police department. “The security guard at the country club observed an individual sitting in the car in the parking lot with blood on (him).”
     
    Officers took the suspect, who was subsequently identified as Dutt, into custody. He is being held on charges of first-degree murder.
     
    The police have said Dutt was a patient of the doctor and had been seen entering the premises. Dutt and Reddy were seen going into the building together, Ojile was quoted as saying by The Wichita Eagle. Dutt then left and came back. The officer manager told police she heard a disturbance and found Dutt assaulting Reddy.
     
    Reddy tried to leave but Dutt followed him and allegedly stabbed him numerous times in the alley.
     
     
    Reddy was affiliated to some other hospitals in the region. He was a specialist in absolute yoga.
     
    Hailing from Nalgonda district, Reddy graduated from Osmania Medical College in 1986. He later moved to the US, where he completed his residency in psychiatry from the University of Kansas Medical School in Wichita.
     
    He is survived by his wife Beena and their three children Radha, Lakshmi and Vishnu, besides his parents Bhadra and Parijata Reddy.

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