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An Indian-Australian mother whose body was found dumped in a bin was in an arranged marriage and spoke openly to friends about the ‘internal issues’ her family was suffering, friends have revealed.
The remains of Chaithanya ‘Swetha’ Madhagani, 30, were found stuffed in a green bin by a dirt road in Buckley, west of Geelong, in regional Victoria about 12pm on Saturday.
Swetha’s husband, Ashok, had reportedly left Australia for India, leaving their three-year-old son Arya with the dead woman’s mother. He called relatives to tell them where the child was.
Close family friend Praveen Kumar Thopucherla – who has known the couple for the past seven years – told Daily Mail Australia that Madhagani was in an ‘arranged and love’ marriage.
Thopucherla said the family’s ‘internal problems’ were well known to friends. “I think they went deeper (than) it appears,” he said.
Ashok Raj Varikuppala (left) and Chaithanya ‘Swetha’ Madhagani were in an ‘arranged and love’ marriage. He was ‘silent’ while she was ‘happy’ and bubbly, friends said
The couple, above, were delighted with their young son and referred to on social media as ‘the little prince’
The green bin was found partially hidden in rural shrubbery
Since moving to Australia for a better life, Swetha had built her own fashion business selling traditional Indian saris – a dream she said was ‘six years’ in the making.
She had bought a home with Ashok in Point Cook in Melbourne’s south-west and was raising a small boy.
In a photo obtained by Daily Mail Australia from 2019, she smiled with satisfaction as she finally became an Australian citizen.
And she spoke publicly about how grateful she was for the life she lived here.
‘Grateful for all that I have, all that I know, all that I am,’ she wrote on social media.
The couple had both worked hard in the past to establish careers in the IT industry, “which meant they were able to establish themselves well here,” Thopucherla said.
“She was a very happy person, her husband was like very quiet and not a talker like Swetha was.”
Swetha adored her young son and referred to him on social media as the ‘little prince’ of her life.
The couple’s son holds up an Australian flag
The couple were spotted in a number of social media photos marking their wedding anniversary
Crime scene investigators swarmed the family’s Mirka St home on Sunday, with detectives seen examining two vehicles located inside the garage and checking trash cans located along the side of the property.
An Indian police spokesperson – Inspector Veera Swamy of the Kushaiguda police station in Hyderabad – told the media that Swethas ‘husband visited mother-in-law a few days ago and gave him his son.
‘Then he left. No one from the family has registered any complaint against anyone yet.
‘We will help with the investigation if anyone approaches. Right now we don’t know where he is as we are not investigating the case without any complaint.’
Victoria Police said in a statement about the mother’s death: ‘It is believed that the parties involved are known to each other and the offender may have fled overseas.’
The Australian Federal Police said it was aware of the incident. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.