Fury on Hyderabad street as MP’s son’s Aston Martin kills Odisha woman, family devastated 1,200km away | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD/MAYURBHANJ: A panicked bystander bangs on the window of a bright red Aston Martin, pleading with the driver to stop, as chaos erupts on a Hyderabad street. A few feet away, 26-year-old Bharati Mukhi lies motionless on the road, blood pooling around her, while another woman standing over her screams for help.The driver eventually steps out, glances toward the injured woman, then walks back to his vehicle to grab his phone — a sequence captured on video that has since gone viral and sparked outrage across social media.The woman in the video, Bharati Mukhi, a sales executive from Mayurbhanj in Odisha, had merely stepped out for lunch with a colleague on Sunday, August 16. She never returned.According to Madhapur police, Mukhi and her colleague had walked toward the ITC Kohenur area near Inorbit Mall around 3pm to pick up food. As they crossed the road back toward the mall, a speeding Aston Martin allegedly driven in a rash and negligent manner rammed into her. She suffered severe head injuries and was rushed to Apollo Hospital in Jubilee Hills, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.Police identified the driver as 21-year-old Lingameneni Sanjush, a Madhapur-based businessman and son of Janasena Party MP Lingameneni Ramesh.Authorities have since conducted drunk-driving and drug tests, collected his blood samples for forensic examination, and seized the vehicle. A case has been registered under Section 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with investigators now awaiting the post-mortem report.Back home, a family’s only support is goneNearly 1,200km away, in a modest household in Mayurbhanj, Bharati’s family is struggling to process the loss of the person who held them together.Bharati had moved to Hyderabad roughly four to five years ago to work at a Lifestyle store in Inorbit Mall, after the Covid-19 lockdown disrupted her studies and derailed a BTech admission her mother had secured for her. Undeterred, she took up the job and became the sole earner for a household of five — her parents and two brothers.Her mother, Anandini Mukhi, recalled how her daughter regularly sent money home and had been thriving in her role before the accident. She said she only learned of the incident when a stranger called to say Bharati had been hospitalised and was unresponsive, with hospital staff initially not permitting anyone inside.Bharati’s brother, Rajanikant Mukhi, said his sister single-handedly managed the family’s finances — from his and their sibling’s education to daily household expenses — and appealed to the government for assistance now that the family has no one to depend on.Her maternal aunt echoed the appeal, describing Bharati as a caring young woman whose earnings kept the family afloat, and called for immediate state compensation to help them survive her sudden absence.(With ANI inputs)
