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The husband of a 30-year-old woman whose body was found in a bin outside Melbourne, allegedly on her parents’ doorstep in India, fell to his knees and expressed grief over her death.
Chaithanya ‘Swetha’ Madhagani’s body was found in a green bin on Mount Pollock Road in Buckley, west of Geelong, Victoria at 12 noon on Saturday.
When the body was found, her husband Ashok Raj Varikuppala had already flown to India with their four-year-old son Ayra last weekend, Victoria Police have confirmed.
Ms Madhagani’s father has now claimed that Varikuppla turned up at Ms Madhagani’s parents’ home in Hyderabad, southern India, to break the news of her death: ‘I am sorry… Chaithanya is no more.’
Her father, Kumar Reddy, had initially believed that his son-in-law and young grandson had planned a surprise visit to India – before he was hit with the devastating news of his daughter’s death.
“We were taken aback, shocked, numb and in tears,” he told the Herald Sun.
Chaithanya ‘Swetha’ Madhagani and her husband Ashok Raj Varikuppala got married 12 years ago and share a four-year-old son. Madhagani was found dead in a dustbin on Saturday
The green bin was found partially hidden in rural shrubbery
Sir. Reddy said hearing of her daughter’s horrific death felt like “the sky has fallen on us”.
Their son-in-law reportedly said she died in an ‘accidental’ manner. He then left his four-year-old son at his grandparents’ house and disappeared, allegedly telling his father-in-law that he was returning to Australia.
The father said the couple married 12 years ago in a ‘marriage of love’ rather than an arranged one and had seemed ‘content’ with their life in Australia.
However, close family friend Praveen Kumar Thopucherla – who has known the couple for seven years – told Daily Mail Australia that the family’s ‘internal problems’ were well known to friends, and described their marriage as ‘love and arranged’.
“I think they went deeper (than) it appears,” he said.
Madhagani’s family has contacted India’s Ministry of External Affairs in the hope that their daughter’s body can be returned to Hyderabad in southern India.
They have asked Australian authorities for a photo of their daughter’s body, but have yet to receive one.
“We want to know what happened to our daughter,” said Mr. Madhagani.
Varikuppala, is believed to have flown back to India with their four-year-old son Arya last weekend
Deepika Devara, a close friend of Ms. Madhagani, has organized one GoFundMe appeal to raise money for her body to be brought to India so that the family can have a Hindu funeral and also to raise some funds for her son.
“Chaitanya was an amazing woman and even a better mother is what she is best known for,” Ms Devara wrote.
‘She has a heart of gold and touched the hearts of everyone she met. There was never a dull moment in her presence.’
By Wednesday night, the appeal had raised nearly $13,000.
Since moving to Australia for a better life, Madhagani had built a fashion business selling traditional Indian saris – a dream she said was ‘six years’ in the making.
She had bought a home with her husband in Point Cook in Melbourne’s south-west.
Friends have described Mrs Madhagani (pictured) as ‘a perfect woman and a perfect mother’ who was devoted to her young son, loved ones and neighbors