Indian techie from AP killed in US

A woman techie from Andhra Pradesh was found murdered in the US in the fifth case of young students and professionals from the state being killed under mysterious circumstances in that country in the last one year.

Arpana Jinaga (24), who was simultaneously pursuing her MS degree at Seattle, was killed sometime on Friday evening (US time), her father Basavraj C Jinaga told reporters today. The motive nor the identity of assailants was not known yet.

“Last night, we got to know that she is no more. We don't know how she was killed. We only came to know that she is no more. We are in a state of shock,” Jinaga, a professor in the city-based Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), said.

 

Arpana, a software engineer, was living at Redmont in Washington State and was working with EMC Corporation at Seattle since 2007. She completed her engineering from a city-based private engineering college in 2005 and later did MS in Embedded Systems from a University in New Jersey.

Arpana's father received a call at 2 am today from the US, stating that Arpana was found dead at her residence with the door of the house broken and that local police was immediately informed about the incident, family sources told PTI.