Much married man meets his dead end in Guntur

GUNTUR: In a sensational incident, Mandalapu Venkata Narendra, 42, who allegedly married several women, was brutally murdered here on Friday. The body of Narendra, an NRI, was found in a hired car with hands and feet tied with a rope and throat slashed with a knife, in front of the casualty ward of the general hospital Friday afternoon.One Seshagiri, who surrendered before Pattabhipuram police at 1.30 pm, claimed that he killed Narendra for deceiving his niece after marrying her.Venkata Narendra, a native of Naidupeta in Nellore district, reportedly married a Punjabi woman in the USA when he lived there. He was arrested by the US police for possessing a fake green-card and imprisoned for 20 months.According to police, the USA government also seized his properties  and cancelled the visas of both Narendra and his wife. He returned to India with his wife after serving the prison term.But soon the couple got divorced following disputes and Narendra became a movie director and also acted in one film as hero.Meanwhile, Jampani Gowry, a native of Guntur who married Narendra about a month ago, lodged a complaint with the police on Thursday alleging she was deceived by Narendra and his relatives. Narendra posed as an NRI living in the US, she said.Another woman also filed a complaint with Tenali police two months ago on similar charges.According to Guntur urban SP N Shyam Sundar, Nerandra married several women at various places, and even in the US and Russia. He received lakhs of rupees from the families of the brides and cheated them. The accused in the murder, Lingam Seshagiri, was the uncle of one of the deceived women.Police also registered a case against Narendra’s mother Kousalyamma and uncle Gopal Naidu on the charges of cheating, based on the complaint of Gowri.