Whiz-kid Andhra techie murdered in US, robbery suspected
In fact the news has had a disturbing resonance throughout Andhra Pradesh as Aparna’s happens to be the eighth case in less than two years of a young person from the state being killed under mysterious circumstances overseas.
By TNN |
HYDERABAD: The last time Arpana Jinaga was in the news was when she won an international award for designing a chip in June 2005. She was 21 then. And in the wee hours of Tuesday, her family���s dreams shattered when the software engineer from Hyderabad was found murdered in her apartment in Redmond, Seattle , with injuries on her neck.
According to family sources, Arpana was killed sometime on Friday evening (US local time). The family learned about the tragedy when they asked a friend to find out whether all was well with Arpana as she had not called home for three days. The cause and circumstances of the murder were not immediately known. The family said Arpana last visited them in 2006.
The Jinaga household is in a state of shock. In fact the news has had a disturbing resonance throughout Andhra Pradesh as Aparna���s happens to be the eighth case in less than two years of a young person from the state being killed under mysterious circumstances overseas.
������ She did her engineering from Vignana Jyothi College and MS from New Jersey. She had joined EMC Software at Seattle very recently,������ said Arpana���s father , B C Jinaga, who heads the School of Information Technology, JNTU.
According to family sources, Arpana was killed sometime on Friday evening (US local time). The family learned about the tragedy when they asked a friend to find out whether all was well with Arpana as she had not called home for three days. The cause and circumstances of the murder were not immediately known. The family said Arpana last visited them in 2006.
The Jinaga household is in a state of shock. In fact the news has had a disturbing resonance throughout Andhra Pradesh as Aparna���s happens to be the eighth case in less than two years of a young person from the state being killed under mysterious circumstances overseas.
������ She did her engineering from Vignana Jyothi College and MS from New Jersey. She had joined EMC Software at Seattle very recently,������ said Arpana���s father , B C Jinaga, who heads the School of Information Technology, JNTU.
Robbery could be motive for Andhra girl���s murder: Cops
������ We don���t know the motive and we don���t have any information about what happened. The only thing we know is that she���s gone from our lives,������ Arpana���s father, B C Jinaga, who heads the School of Information Technology, JNTU said, trying hard to suppress tears.
������ We don���t know the motive and we don���t have any information about what happened. The only thing we know is that she���s gone from our lives,������ Arpana���s father, B C Jinaga, who heads the School of Information Technology, JNTU said, trying hard to suppress tears.
The 24-year-old techie was an expert in embedded systems. Arpana was declared one of the 20 winners, the only one from Asia, in the worldwide digital signal controller design contest . What is baffling is that her gruesome murder came to light three days after she was dead. The Seattle police are investigating the matter and suspect robbery as the motive.
Jinaga���s friend entered Arpana���s Valley View apartments in the 8900 block on the Redmond-Woodinville Road at 9 am on Monday to find her decomposed body. The police soon arrived and found that her body bore signs of struggle. Her apartment was in disarray.
������ We have booked it as a case of suspicious death, said Redmond police spokesman Jim Bove, while ruling out suicide. Detectives are talking to Arpana���s friends and co-workers , trying to determine when she was seen last.
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