A female Indian techie N Sasikala and her son were found murdered in New Jersey, according to Sasikala’s family that lives in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
The bodies of 40-year-old Sasikala and her seven-year-old son were recovered from their home in US.
Sasikala's husband N Hanumantha Rao found the bodies when he returned home from work on Thursday evening.
Y Sambasiva Rao, a member of Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly from Prakasam district, spoke to representatives of Telugu Association of North America (TANA) over phone about the incident.
He said the mother and her son were strangulated to death.
Hanumantha Rao and Sasikala both were software professionals. Sasikala used to work from home. The couple had been living in the US for the last nine years.This is the latest in a series of incidents involving Indian techies.
Telangana's aeronautical engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed when Adam W. Purinton, who earlier served in the US Navy, shot him in Olathe, Kansas, on February 23.
Vamshi Reddy Mamidala, also from Telangana, was shot dead in Milpitas, California, on February 10 in a garage in his apartment building.
(With IANS inputs)