Five get death penalty for murder of former Chittoor mayor, her husband

The IX Additional District and Sessions Court here on Friday sentenced five men to death for the 2015 double murder of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders, the then Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and her husband Katari Mohan, terming it “one of the most brutal crimes in recent memory.”

Judge Srinivasa Rao handed the death penalty to Sriram Chandrasekhar alias Chintu (55), M. Venkatesh (49), Jayaprakash Reddy (33), T. Manjunath (37), and Venkatachalapathi alias Razor Venkatesh (61). The court also ordered them to pay ₹70 lakh in compensation, ₹50 lakh to Anuradha’s family and ₹20 lakh to complainant Satish Naidu, who was injured while trying to save Mohan.

The judge described the murders as a “meticulously plotted act carried out with chilling precision.”