Sources quoted the US police as saying that the attacker repeatedly stabbed Dr Achutha Reddy after a conversation

KANSAS (TIP): A 57-year-old doctor from Telangana was stabbed to death at his clinic in Kansas on Wednesday. Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was found with multiple wounds in an alley behind his clinic in East Wichita. One of his patients, a 21-year-old man, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder.

This is the second killing this year of an Indian in Kansas where Srinivas Kuchibhotla, also from Telangana, was shot dead in February.

Reports quoted the US police as saying that the attacker, identified as Umar Rashid Dutt, “repeatedly stabbed the doctor after a conversation”. He allegedly chased the doctor, who tried to get away.

The accused man was found at a country club after a security guard reported a suspicious person sitting in a car in the parking lot with blood on his clothes.

Besides running the Holistic Psychiatric Services, Dr Reddy was affiliated to various hospitals in the region and was known to be a yoga and fitness expert.

The father of three was from the Nalgonda district and graduated from the Osmania Medical College in 1986. Three years later, he completed his residency in psychiatry from the University of Kansas Medical School in Wichita. After practicing for more than two decades, he started his clinic.

Dr Reddy’s wife, Beena Reddy, is also a doctor Fellow doctors and members of the community described his death as a loss to society. The Wichita Eagle newspaper quoted Denis Knight, president of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, as saying: “The Medical Society is heartbroken over the loss of Reddy.”

In YouTube videos, Dr Reddy said he also treated chronic physical pain through a system he called “Absolute Yoga”. He said he had suffered chronic back pain for 10 years, which drove him to research and develop the system which stressed on the “right mindset”.

In February, Srinivas Kuchibotla was killed by a man who shouted: “Get out of my country”. The police say Dr Reddy’s killing does not appear to be a hate crime.

(Source: NDTV)