A 31-year-old Indian accountant, Vanapalli Chandra Kishore, committed suicide after k!lling his two sons, aged six and seven, over their poor academic performance.
Kishore left a suicide note stating that he realised his two children, who were in upper kindergarten (UKG) and class I, are not doing well academically and would struggle to establish themselves in a highly competitive world.
The gruesome incident happened at Ramanayyapet, in Kakinada town of Andhra Pradesh, on Friday night, March 14, 2025.
Sarpavaram police station inspector B Peddi Raju said Kishore worked as an assistant at the ONGC office, an oil company in Kakinada.
“He killed his two sons by tying up their hands and legs and drowning them in two buckets of water. The family is financially stable, so his actions are surprising,” the police officer added.
Kishore had married Tanuja Sai Rani in 2017 and the couple had two sons, Joshith (7) and Nikhil (6), who studied in a nearby private school.
Their neighbours said they found the couple to be normal and friendly. As the children were not doing well at school, the parents had decided to shift them to a better school from the new academic year and also made enquiries.
As Friday was a holiday for Holi, Kishore along with his wife and children had gone to the ONGC office at Vakalapudi village, in Kakinada rural mandal, to celebrate the festival with his colleagues.
A few minutes after reaching there, he told his wife that he would take the children to a tailor to get new school uniforms stitched. He left her in the office and went out with the children.
When they didn’t return for a long time, she called her husband on his mobile repeatedly, but he did not respond.
After some time, Kishore sent a message that he would be back in 10 minutes. But he did not return.
A worried Tanuja, along with one of his colleagues, went to their house and found the doors closed from inside.
When there was no response from inside even after loud knocks and calls, Kishore’s colleague called some locals and broke open the main door.
While Kishore was found hanging from the ceiling fan in one of the rooms, Joshith and Nikhil were found dead in the bathroom.
Their hands and legs were tied and their heads were dumped in buckets full of water.
“How the kids aged six and seven, in UKG and class 1, will fare in the real world cannot be judged so early. We are not sure what their father thought. There could be other reasons why Kishore took this extreme step,” a police officer stated on Saturday.
“We came to know that the kids had joined a new school recently and they were not coping well with the change, We are investigating all angles.”
Police are questioning Kishore’s wife and also seeking information from relatives who live in the same locality
