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M Sankara Rao, a former Army jawan (a rank system of officials), in Jalumuru mandal (town) in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, had murdered his wife over a dowry dispute and was remanded to custody in 2005.

Some villagers in Mettapeta were witnesses for the prosecution. But later on November 2010, he was released on bail taking special permission on health grounds. Shankar Rao then hatched a plan to murder all those who were witnesses against him during the trial of the murder case.

First he plotted to sacrifice his children. On November 29, 2010 He brought his two children, daughter Manasa who was studying in Grade 3 of Elementary School and son Diwakar who was a kindergartner, from the residential school they were studying. After the children fell asleep at night, he took a cutlass and chopped off their heads and hid the two heads at the Someswara temple near Srimukhalingam, packed in cover. The trunks of his children were left in the bloodied open house.

Later, he killed his ‘friend' Pyla Venkatarao who helped him in committing the grisly act of shifting the heads to the temple. Rao had requested him to place the bags at Someswara Swami temple at Srimukhalingam telling him that the bags contained coconuts. Not stopping at that, Sankara Rao killed Pyla Lakshmanarao, Metta Yerrayya, U. Parvati and Boddepalli Damayanti who reportedly deposed against him in court in the case relating to his wife's murder. As he went on the rampage the whole night, panic-stricken villagers ran for safety.

During interrogation, Sankara Rao admitted that he decide to kill his children because no one would look after them if he is in jail.

The former CRPF jawan was sentenced to death in 2012, but Rao was later acquitted by High Court due to lack of evidence and poor prosecution. He was de-facto released again. Finally, thanks to villagers, he was lynched in 2017. Seven people were arrested for being suspected of killing Rao.

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