Andhra techie's 40-yr-old wife and son found dead in their New Jersey home in US

In yet another shocking incident involving Indians in America, a software engineer found his wife and son dead in their home in New Jersey. 

Victims were N Sasikala (40) and her son Anish Sai belonged to Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam District. According to their family back in India, Sasikala’s husband N Hanumantha Rao found the bodies when he returned home from work on Thursday evening.

Y Sambasiva Rao, a member of Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly from Prakasam district, spoke to representatives of Telugu Association of North America (TANA) over phone about the incident, an agency report said. 

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He said the mother and her son were strangulated to death.

Hanumantha Rao and Sasikala both were software professionals. Sasikala used to work from home. The couple had been living in the US for nine years.

This is the latest in a series of incidents involving Indian techies.

Telangana’s aeronautical engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed when Adam W Purinton, who earlier served in the US Navy, shot him in Olathe, Kansas, on February 23.

Vamshi Reddy Mamidala, also from Telangana, was shot dead in Milpitas, California, on February 10 in a garage in his apartment building.

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