Three Women, Three Rooms, About Ten Days
Police in Hyderabad have asked hotels to strengthen guest identity checks after three women were found dead in separate hotel rooms in the city across roughly ten days. Investigators have not linked the three deaths, and each is being handled as its own inquiry.
What Police Told the Hotels
Officers asked hotels to verify identity documents more rigorously and to stay alert when a couple checks in together and one guest later leaves the property alone. Police also warned establishments against accepting fake or unverified identity documents, saying a hotel could face legal action for failing to verify a guest properly. The Telangana Hotels Association urged its members to exercise greater caution and to strengthen their document verification procedures.
SR Nagar: Two False Names at the Desk
B Sirisha, 34, a bank customer care executive from Nagasamudram in Vikarabad district, was found dead in Room 103 of an OYO hotel in SR Nagar on Tuesday, 29 September. The man staying in the room, A Srinivas, 38, left at about 3.30am and told reception that she would check out after breakfast. Staff rang the doorbell through the morning and got no answer, then alerted police before noon. Officers opened the room with a duplicate key and found her body on the bed, with a plate of food beside it.
Police said Srinivas had been staying at the hotel since 9 September and Sirisha joined him in the room on 24 September. Both handed over Aadhaar cards carrying false names, according to police: Srinivas registered as Ganesh, and Sirisha registered as Durga. Jubilee Hills DCP A Ramana Reddy said police suspect a quarrel late at night and an attack with a blunt object. The case is registered under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the murder provision. Srinivas is absconding, and police teams have been sent to his native village and to bus stands and railway stations. A Clues team examined the room, and investigators have taken the hotel CCTV footage.
Miyapur: A Missing Report and a Phone Trace
Komati Srijana, 27, a first-year postgraduate paediatrics student in Hanumakonda, was found dead in Room 502 of Hotel Grand Brochil in Miyapur on 2 October. She had travelled to Hyderabad on 30 September after a male friend, identified as Ravi Kumar, asked her to return a gold chain, and she checked into the hotel with him that day. When her family could not reach her, they went to the police, and officers traced her phone location to the hotel. The room was opened with a spare key and her body was found on the bed in a decomposed state. Her father, K Bhumayya, lodged a complaint naming Ravi Kumar. Police said Ravi Kumar checked out on 1 October and has been untraceable since. Miyapur police registered a murder case and said no external injuries were visible, with the cause of death to be established by post-mortem examination.
The Third Case
A third death involved a 29-year-old hospitality employee who was staying at a hotel with a male colleague. She was found unconscious, taken to hospital, and declared dead on arrival. Police have said a man was arrested in connection with the death. A later round-up of the three cases described the man who had accompanied her as leaving the hotel after she was declared dead, so the record on the third case is not yet settled.
Where the Checks Fall Short
The cases put attention on the front desk. Police said the SR Nagar hotel took Aadhaar cards carrying two false names, and investigators are examining how the forged documents cleared check-in. The scrutiny covers guest records, identity verification, and the escalation of unusual movements during a stay, with hotels told to treat those steps as core safety protocols rather than check-in formalities. In the SR Nagar case the room was opened with a duplicate key about eight hours after the man had left the property alone.
The three deaths remain separate investigations. The causes of death in each case are still being established, and police have not drawn a link between them.