A Rajamahendravaram court on Wednesday granted a two-day police custody of accused – Suravarapu Daswanth and Andrew Joseph Edwards – to investigate them in a hit-and-run incident, which occurred on August 3 and led to the death of Dr. Kanike Priyanka, a first year Postgraduate student of GSL Medical College.
The two suspects were sent to judicial custody on August 7 to Rajahmundry Central Prison till August 21.
“The local court has allowed the accused, Suravarapu Daswanth and Andrew Joseph Edwards, police custody for two days, beginning Wednesday. ASP and Investigation Officer Patil Devaraj Manish will investigate the case and probe the case with the accused,” East Godavari Superintendent of Police D. Narasimha Kishore told The Hindu.
On August 3, the accused allegedly in an inebriated condition hit the two-wheeler, on which Priyanka was riding pillion, with a car at a mall in Rajamahendravaram city. The accused allegedly hit the victim twice with the car before running over her while she was riding pillion on a two-wheeler. She was declared brain dead at G.S.L. Hospital in Rajamahendravaram on the same day following which she was shifted to a private hospital in Secunderabad. She died on August 7 at the hospital.
A case has been registered against the accused under Section 105 of BNS – Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Published – August 19, 2026 07:49 pm IST
