Married man in Vizag kills girlfriend, chops body into 3 parts, stores in freezer

Behind the closed door of a rented flat in Visakhapatnam, a brutal crime unfolded piece by piece. And for hours. No one outside had any idea what had happened within.

A 30-year-old man, Chintada Ravindra, has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend Mounika, dismembering her body, and hiding the remains inside his home.

It ended not with a chase, but with a confession.

Ravindra had been living as a tenant in Gajuwaka for nearly two years. On the day of the incident, he asked Mounika to come over in the afternoon.

Police say the meeting quickly turned tense. An argument broke out inside the flat and within those walls, it escalated into violence.

By the time it ended, Mounika was dead.

Investigators say this was not entirely impulsive. Before the killing, Ravindra had gone to a store in Srinagar looking for knives. When he could not find them, he ordered them online.

What followed after the murder has left even officers shaken.

Ravindra allegedly cut the body into three parts inside the house.

One portion was pushed into a refrigerator, concealed behind an ordinary door in an otherwise ordinary room. Another was stuffed into a gunny sack and hidden under the bed. The third, the head, was taken away and burned in an isolated area at Adavivaram.

Inside the flat, traces of the crime remained.

Neighbours later spoke of an eerie normalcy. “Nothing seemed unusual. No noise, nothing,” one resident said.

Police said Ravindra’s wife had recently delivered a child and was staying at her parents’ home. With the house empty, he had called Mounika over.

Investigators are still piecing together what triggered the fatal argument, but what is clear is how quickly it turned irreversible.

Mounika, a resident of Visakhapatnam, never returned home.

After attempting to conceal the crime, Ravindra made a phone call, not to flee, but to seek advice.

He called a friend. That conversation would end the cover-up.

On the friend’s suggestion, Ravindra walked into the Gajuwaka Police Station and surrendered. He confessed to the killing, police said.

Officers then entered the flat and uncovered what had been hidden, the remains, the evidence, and the chilling aftermath of what had taken place.

For Mounika’s family, the loss is devastating. For neighbours, the shock lingers. And for investigators, the details of the case are unlikely to fade soon.

“This was not just a murder,” an officer said quietly. “It was what came after.”

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