Deccan Herald
27 August 2015
A motorist masking his face with a green cloth has
been terrifying the prosperous West Godavari district, injecting what is
rumoured to be his HIV-infected blood.
The motorist riding around half a dozen villages jabs
the needle with yet to be discovered substance into women and speeds away. At
least 12 women stuck with the needles have been admitted to hospitals in the
district in the last four days.
The attacks began on 22 August in Yadagandla village
of Undi Mandal where the motorist stuck needles into G Venkata Vara Lakshmi and
Andukuri Mercy in two different streets and fled. […]
West Godavari police are on high alert since rumours
began spreading that the attacker is an HIV/AIDS patient and is injecting his
blood in women to avenge his infection. […]
The Hindu
27 August 2015
Rajulapudi
Srinivas
Two more incidents reported in Narsapuram division.
Police seized the needles and have sent them to Forensic Science Laboratory
(FSL) for examination.
The psychopath, who was creating panic by jabbing
needles to women, continued to attack them moving alone in villages in West
Godavari on Wednesday. […]
New Indian Express
26 August 2015
ELURU:Even as the police here are still groping in the
dark in cracking the recent case of mysterious ‘injection attacks’ on
schoolgirls and women in different places in West Godavari district, the
miscreant struck again on Tuesday --
‘injecting’ a mysterious substance into four girls and two women in Kumudavalli
village and Goraganamudi village in
Palakoderu mandal, Vendra village in Undi mandal and Kesavaram village in
Ganapavaram mandal, according to sources. […]
Hindustan Times
28 August 2015
Prasad
Nichenametla, Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
An unidentified bike rider has terrorised Andhra
Pradesh’s West Godavari district, pricking at least nine women travelling alone
with a syringe needle in the past week but police say the victims haven't been
injected with harmful substances. […]
NDTV
30 August 2015
Hyderabad | Indo-Asian News Service
Hyderabad: A
psychopath, who has created terror in Andhra Pradesh' West Godavari district
with injection attacks on women, struck again today, this time targetting a
two-year-old.
The baby was sitting along with her parents when the
unidentified man attacked her with injection in Mutyalapallimandi village in
Mogaltur mandal.
The injured baby was taken to a hospital, police said.
It was not clear if the child's mother was his target. […]
New Indian Express
30 August 2015
By Express News Service
[…] According to auto driver Dhanikonda Yesu of
Bhimavaram, in the morning he dropped workers at a prawn-feed factory. Later,
he saw a youth on a bike and suspecting that he could be the psycho, Yesu
reportedly chased him in his auto.
The youth immediately took out a syringe and injected
the auto driver on his right hand before fleeing. A horrified Yesu threw away
the syringe and rushed home. After he informed his wife about the incident, the
couple approached the local police and lodged a complaint. However, the police
were left confused as Yesu gave different versions of the incident when they
questioned him. […]
Mumbai Mirror
30 August 2015
By P Pavan
[…] However, much to the relief of the victims,
laboratory tests of the injected material have established that it was
harmless. "As he injects his victims in the thigh only, he must have
worked in a veterinary hospital, pet clinic or a diagnostic centre,"
Narsapuram Deputy SP P Sowmya Latha said. […]
First Post
31 August 2015
by A Saye Sekhar
The ‘syringe man’ of West Godavari district does not
use a syringe to attack his victims, he uses a veterinary needle. Veterinarians
punch holes in the thick skins of the animals with such needles before
administering injections, according to the police. There’s no possibility of
the ‘psychopath’ on the loose injecting any substance into his targets with
this weapon, they said. […]
Superintendent of Police of West Godavari district
Bhaskar Bhushan […] said the number of his victims is being exaggerated. “He
has attacked 11 women so far, not more than 20 as being reported. Some of them
are suspected attacks or ones reported out of fear psychosis,” he said. […]
New Indian Express
31 August 2015
[…] On Sunday, a family of Mutyalapalli village in
Mogaltur mandal, traveling by motorcycle, complained to the police that an
unknown person had ‘injected’ their baby. However, when the police grilled them
about the incident, the woman denied the incident. […]
Times of India
31 August 2015
BHIMAVARAM, West Godavari: Fear has gripped villagers
in West Godavari district as the 'Injection Psycho' — on the prowl for the last
one week — continues to attack unsuspecting people, particularly women. On
Sunday he targeted a three-year-old girl, who had to be given immediate medical
aid at a local hospital. Just a day before that he attacked an autorickshaw
driver, his first male victim.
The unidentified attacker, whom the police suspect to
be a psychopath, has so far injected 25 people with some unknown substance that
reportedly sends the victims into a state of drowsiness. […]
Times of India
1 September 2015
New Indian Express
2 September 2015
By Express News Service
[…] In an interesting development, police dismissed
rumours that the ‘injection attacks’ had been ‘engineered’ by some influential
political leaders to paint the police brass - who have so far been unable to
nab the miscreant(s) - black (inefficient) and pressurize the government to
transfer some of them. It is reported that these people have been trying for a
month now to get some top policemen inimical to them transferred but in
vain.
Times of India
3 September 2015
TNN
[…] It was widely circulated that the 'needle man' was
caught in Mogaltur. But it turned out to be a false alarm. A couple of days
ago, news emerged that the accused was in the custody of Ravulapalem police in
East Godavari, which also turned out to be false. […]
The Hindu
5 September 2015
Sumit Bhattacharjee
[…] And now we have the Syringe Man of West Godavari.
As serial offenders go, he is a bit cut-price but he has generated some
excitement for the rather easily excited audiovisual media. […]
The Siasat Daily
5 September 2015
The ‘syringe psychos’ who crated [sic] a scare in West
and East Godavari districts by attacks with syringe, seems to have come to
Hyderabad city.
Ramya, a class four student of Lilliput model school
in Malkajigiri, who was on her way to the School, was attacked this morning by
a person who came on a bike, with a syringe. […]
Times of India
6 September 2015
Syed Akbar,TNN
HYDERABAD: Has the 'needle attacker' from West
Godavari shifted his base to Hyderabad? The city police were virtually on
tenterhooks on Saturday after eight-year-old Ramya, student of Class IV in a
private school in Malkajgiri, complained that a motorcyclist jabbed her with a
needle. Doctors, however, could not find any telltale marks of a needle on the
girl. The police who reviewed the CCTV footage, too did not find any evidence of
such an attack.
Ramya's claim may have stemmed from the fear psychosis
that has gripped people in parts of West Godavari district. According to
clinical psychologists, the ever-growing claims of an alleged motorcycle-borne
psychopath on the prowl attacking people on the streets may well turn out to be
yet another 'urban legend'. […]
The Hindu
6 September 2015
New Indian Express
6 September 2015
HYDERABAD: While the notorious psychopath, who
triggered panic in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh after stinging more
than two dozen women and children with a syringe, continues evading police net,
it seems the ‘fear factor’ has reached the State capital here.
In a first of its kind incident, a class four student
at a private school in Malkajgiri has claimed that she was jabbed by a masked
person mount on a dark motor bike, in an attack similar to the incidents in
West Godavari district of AP. However, in the absence of any evidence and the
considering fact that there were no eyewitnesses, police refused to buy the
story and maintained that the girl was ‘confused’. […]
New Indian Express
6 September 2015
HYDERABAD: For the past two weeks, people and police
in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh have been spending sleepless
nights. People, particularly women, are scared to move on the busy streets
alone. The reason is that a miscreant who is now popularly referred as
‘Injection Psycho’ is on a spree of attacking people with syringes containing
unidentified liquid. […]
New Indian Express
7 September 2015
NELLORE:
Breaking silence on the ‘injection psycho’ issue, Director General of
Police JV Ramudu said the police have secured crucial information on the
incidents and the perpetrators.
The DGP, who was in the district on Sunday for
participating in various developmental programmes, told mediapersons here on
Sunday that there was no possibility of the psychopath injecting dangerous
substance into human body through needles and said it was proved that only
water was found in the needles. […]
The Hindu
8 September 2015
Staff
Reporter
Panic prevailed for sometime in surroundings of L. B.
Nagar on Monday evening after a person, who identified himself as Swamy Naik, a
Life Insurance Corporation employee, claimed that a stranger jabbed a needle on
him. The man was reportedly travelling in a bus when the incident took place.
He got down at the Chaitanyapuri bus stop and informed a few persons about it.
A team of Chaitanyapuri police, who were present at
the spot, immediately swung into action and alerted their higher-ups. “Our team
checked a nearby private hospital following reports that the man went there for
treatment. But the hospital authorities denied treating any person with such
complaint,” said Tafseer Iqbal, DCP L.B. Nagar. […]
Nalgonda Staff Reporter adds: News of alleged
injection attack by a psychopath on a man created panic in Kodad on Monday.
The victim, identified as Kopuri Veeraiah (50), was
proceeding to Kapugollu in an auto after meeting bank officials over crop loan
issue. An unidentified person sitting in an auto coming in the opposite
direction attacked him with a syringe below his left eye at Gudibanda crossroad
on NH-65 after which he felt drowsy, the victim said. Later, he was rushed to a
hospital by locals. However, the doctors are not sure whether it is an
injection attack or not, but they have found an injury below his eye. […]
New Indian Express
13 September 2015
By Express News Service
New Indian Express
14 September 2015
By Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed among residents of
Indiranagar in Banjara Hills after rumours spread that a syringe psycho had
assaulted a baby girl with a needle. According to police, a couple from
Indiranagar called police stating that a person has assaulted their daughter
with needle and they found blood clots on her hand. Police visited the place
and shifted baby to a nearby hospital.
During the course of investigation, it was revealed
that no one assaulted baby with the needle. Police took a tenant staying in the
same house into custody. The man said he attended the baby when she was crying.
Parents came out of the house and found a needle and suspected that their
daughter was assaulted with needle and alerted the police. Police said that
when baby girl was playing with needle, a person who is staying on the premises
came to stop her from touching it. No case was registered.
New Indian Express
16 September 2015
By Express News Service
MACHILIPATNAM: A youth who was moving rousing
suspicion that he might the syringe psycho was overpowered by people in Sagguru
in Agiripalli mandal in the district on Tuesday.
According to police, people of the village turned him
over to police on suspicion that he was the syringe psycho. While searching his
bag, they found a syringe in it. They then beat him up.
Agiripalli Sub-Inspector of Police V Rajendra Prasad
said that he did not think he was the syringe psycho whom the police have been
hunting. “This person appears to have lost mental balance. When we searched his
bag, we found pieces of paper, rags and one syringe. It seems he was picking up
articles that were thrown on the road just like that. He does not appear to be
a local. He may have been from Tamil Nadu,” the Sub-Inspector said. […]
AP Dunia
18 September 2015
After a brief period of calm, the suspected psychopath
has attacked a person in East Godavari district today.
According to reports, the psycho attacked a mason at
Vetlapalem village in Samalkot mandal. The victim Srinivas works as a mason and
the incident happened when he was returning from work.
The victim was immediately admitted to a hospital and
he underwent health check up. It is said that a woman was also involved in the
attack. […]
New Indian Express
21 September 2015
By Express News Service
ELURU: It has been nearly a month since his first
attack and the injection psycho continues to be elusive. The West Godavari
police launched a massive manhunt for the miscreant, but with no luck, even as
nearly 25 people became his victims till date.
Since August 22, when the first attack by the psycho
on two girl students at Yandagandi in Undi mandal was reported, both the police
and people had been spending sleepless nights. Thereafter, several attacks were
reported by the victims and the doctors confirmed the syringe marks on the
bodies of the injured, till last week. However, the police reiterated that no
fresh attacks by the psycho were reported, after August 26, and those who
claimed to be the victims of the miscreants, mistook accidental injuries to
that of psycho attack.
District superintendent of police Bhaskar Bhushan and
Narsapuram DSP Sowmya Latha stated that the psycho victims are only 11 and the
other complaints were fake. Due to increasing pressure from the public, the cops
formed 40 special teams, which released two sketches of the miscreants, after
questioning the victims. The investigation also led them to a video-captured
photograph of the accused, after checking the footage recorded by closed
circuit TV cameras at different locations in the district.
Despite all these efforts, the police could not nab
the psycho, who is now believed to have escaped from the district.
New Indian Express
27 September 2015
HYDERABAD:A man, mistaken for the much-feared
‘injection psycho’ who triggered fear psychosis among the citizens in East
Godavari district, was arrested by the government railway police from
Secunderabad railway station on Saturday morning. However, the curiosity of
co-passengers died down as it was revealed that he was not ‘the injection
psycho’ but just another mentally disturbed person.
The incident unravelled on board Secunderabad bound
Bhagyanagar Express at around 9.45 am when passengers noticed a man carrying
two syringes when the train reached Cherlapally.
Going by his untidy appearance and absurd mannerisms,
the passengers detained and handed him over to the police as the train arrived
at Secunderabad.
However, Police found that Ravikumar (34) is a
habitual offender who extracts money from public after introducing himself as a
policeman. A couple of identity cards with heads like ‘IPS-Crime’ were
recovered from his possession. On interrogation, it was found he was also
habituated to casual sexual affairs making use of the fake ID cards, police
said. […]
The Hindu
30 September 2015
Talking about the recent incidents of injection
attacks in Nalgonda district, Superintendent of Police Vikram Jeet Duggal said
all the four injection attack incidents that were reported in the past one
month were proved to be false since doctors found no injection injuries on the
body of victims. […]
Sakshi Post
3 October 2015
Guntur: The syringe psycho who had created a rukkus in
the past few weeks has entered Guntur district and attacked a student. On
Saturday morning, while Krishna was on his way to school, he was attacked by a
biker with a syringe. The onlookers have rushed the victim to the near by
hospital. More details are yet to be known and the police are trying to nab the
culprit. Syringe psycho had created a havoc in Telugu states and many were
nabbed under suspision.
The New Indian
Express
6 December 2015
HYDERABAD/VISAKHAPATNAM:
The syringe psycho, who triggered panic in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, has
returned. Two cases of syringe attack were reported from Hyderabad and
Visakhapatnam on Saturday. The psycho, who pricks women and girl students with
a syringe, has unleashed terror among women, particularly who are travelling
alone. On Saturday, a 40-year-old woman was attacked by the suspected psycho at
Vanasthalipuram in Hyderabad. The 40-year-old victim is working as the vice
principal of a private college. She was attacked while riding her scooter
alone.
According to Rama,
the victim, two youth, wearing masks, attacked her with an empty syringe and
fled the spot. The incident took place at Hills Colony under Vanasthalipuram
police limits on Saturday. […]
Meanwhile, a
52-year-old woman was attacked, purportedly by the syringe psycho at Balayya
Sastry Layout area in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. The victim, A
Sailaja, is a teacher. The incident happened Saturday afternoon near Ramannaidu
Maharshi Ashram at Balayya Sastry Layout. While the victim was travelling in a
car with her son, two youngsters came close to the car on a bike, and the
pillion injected her on the left forearm before fleeing the spot. Sailaja was
shifted to a private hospital.
The New Indian
Express
7 December 2015
VISAKHAPATNAM: A
day after a woman was attacked by an alleged syringe psycho, the police ruled
out the chances of him being the actual culprit, who terrorised women in the
neighbouring districts. The police who are investigating the case suspect that
it was most likely a chain snatching incident.
Investigating
officer of the case and Four Town inspector Ch Shanmukh Rao said that the
medical reports reveal that she was not injected and they were suspecting that
the bike-borne chain snatching gang in masks tried to snatch the gold chain of
the woman while driving the bike and in that process she received a minor
injury on her left forearm as the woman opened the car window and speaking over
phone, he added.
Meanwhile, police
sources also said that a similar incident took place in Hyderabad the same day.
He also added that if it was the syringe psycho’s work all the cases in the
neighbouring districts were such that there was only one person coming on a
bike and attacking lonely women. But in the city incident, there were two
persons.
The Hans India
25 January 2016
Eluru: Reports that injection psycho, who created
terror across the district has struck again after three months has created
panic among the people, here on Sunday. An unidentified person attacked a
32-year-old panchayat sweeper near Market Yard here.
Bangaru Nagaraju (32), who is working as a sweeper in
Paluru Panchayati in Attili mandal is living at Venkataramapunta village in
Attili mandal. While, he was on his way to Eluru to attend a function, a
middle-aged man asked him for lift at Denduluru railway gate and Nagaraju
dropped him near Market Yard.
As soon as the middle-aged guy alighted from the
two-wheeler, Nagaraju felt a shooting pain near his hip. After reaching
Kothapeta, he saw swelling on his hip and pain in the legs and rushed to a
government hospital. Duty doctor Vijaya Nirmala said that needle marks are not
visible but asserted that Nagaraju is free from any danger and is under
observation.
