Summary:
Hyderabad, Jan 6 (PTI) A selfie video of a 43-year-old businessman, who allegedly died by suicide along with his family members in Telangana, has surfaced on Thursday in which the victim has purportedly accused the son of a local MLA of making disparaging remarks about his wife and pushing him to take the extreme step.
In the purported video, which has gone viral, the man has accused Vanama Raghavendra Rao, son of Kothagudem MLA and ruling TRS leader Vanama Venkateswara Rao, of asking him to visit Hyderabad to get his financial problems solved and made some objectionable remarks about his wife in this context.
The accused person is now absconding.
The victim Ramakrishna had set his wife and twin daughters, aged 13, afire before killing himself at his house in Paloncha town of Bhadradri-Kothagudem district early on Monday.
The couple and one daughter died on the spot while another child succumbed to burns at a state-run hospital in Kothagudem on Wednesday.
Police said they have submitted the selfie video in a local court which the deceased is believed to have shot before carrying out the murder-suicide.