In a chilling familicide in Vikarabad district, Telangana, 23-year-old nurse Nakkala Surekha allegedly poisoned her parents on January 27, 2026, after they forbade her inter-caste love marriage. Surekha, a BSc Nursing graduate at Vikarabad's Apollo Clinic, had been in a two-year relationship with a 25-year-old mechanic from a neighboring village. Neighbors reported escalating quarrels since Diwali 2025, with parents citing caste differences and his unstable job as reasons for refusal.

Fuming from a heated argument post-dinner, Surekha pilfered four 2.5 ml vials of succinylcholine—a paralytic anesthetic—from her workplace, mixing a lethal 5 ml dose per parent. Around 10 PM, she injected her mother intramuscularly in the thigh and her father intravenously in the arm while they slept, feigning care for "stomach pain." The drug caused rapid respiratory arrest; victims collapsed within minutes, showing frothy secretions and cyanosis.

Panicked, Surekha rushed them to a local government hospital, where staff declared them dead on arrival at 11:15 PM. Autopsies at Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad, confirmed succinylcholine toxicity via mass spectrometry—levels 10x fatal (plasma at 8 mcg/mL vs. therapeutic 1-2 mcg/mL). Bruise marks on injection sites raised red flags; viscera reports linked to hospital theft logs.

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Vikarabad police zeroed in on Surekha during family questioning on January 28. She confessed within hours, admitting premeditation fueled by frustration. "They wouldn't let me live my life," she told interrogators. Sub-divisional Police Officer N Srinivasa Reddy confirmed: "No accomplices yet; we're scanning her phone for lover's involvement." CCTV from the clinic verified vial theft.

A case under IPC Sections 302 (double murder) and 201 (evidence destruction) was filed at Kodangal station. Produced before the First Class Magistrate on January 29, Surekha was remanded to 14-day judicial custody at Chanchalguda Jail. Probe teams are checking her partner's alibi and family finances amid rumors of dowry pressures.

This tragedy spotlights honor killings and mental health in rural India, with NGOs urging counseling hotlines. Vikarabad SP vows swift justice as the community mourns daily wage-earner father and homemaker mother, leaving Surekha's younger sibling orphaned.

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