3 women, 3 hotel rooms and 3 murders put Hyderabad police on edge

Three women met their tragic ends in hotel rooms across Hyderabad over the past ten days, causing the police to become increasingly vigilant. The police are urging hotels to be extra cautious, particularly when a couple rents a room and one individual fails to check out. Authorities have highlighted the issue of people using counterfeit identification cards to secure accommodations. The Telangana Hotels Association has joined the call for heightened vigilance, urging hoteliers to rigorously verify the authenticity of IDs.

On Friday, the chilling discovery of a decomposed body in a small hotel in Miyapur sent shockwaves through the city. A 27-year-old medical student, who had reportedly met a man named Ravi Kumar on social media, found herself in grave danger. The woman had agreed to travel to Hyderabad with Ravi, who had borrowed valuables from her, promising to return them.

When she failed to return to her hostel, her family alerted the police, who traced her final mobile location to the hotel. Tragically, the woman had been smothered with a pillow, and Ravi was nowhere to be found.

On September 29, a 34-year-old bank customer care executive was discovered dead in a hotel room in SR Nagar. The woman was staying with her partner, A Srinivas, who had used a fraudulent ID card. The staff only became suspicious when Srinivas was seen leaving the hotel alone at 3:30 am. When the woman did not answer the door hours later, staff alerted the authorities.

The victim had sustained multiple injuries, and a plate of untouched food lay beside her on the bed. The suspect, who works in the Telugu film industry, remains at large, with police searching his hometown for clues.

The third victim, a 29-year-old woman from Jharkhand, was airlifted to a hospital in Kothaguda by her male companion. Upon arrival, it was evident that she was unconscious, and she was rushed to the emergency department, where she was pronounced dead. The attending staff noticed injuries on her head and face. The man in question, Ravi Teja, hailed from Anakapalli in Andhra Pradesh and was working in the hospitality sector.

He had checked the women into a nearby hotel a day earlier and claimed that she had fainted. However, police believe that Ravi Teja struck the woman with a blunt object due to her insistence on marriage, and he allegedly fled the scene in a state of intoxication.