AMARAVATI: A 35-year-old software engineer was burnt alive inside a car in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor over his brother’s extramarital affair.

Nagaraju, the deceased has been living along with his brother Purushottam in the Konaseema district. Purushottam was allegedly having an affair with Ripunjaya, a married woman residing near their residence. However, relatives of the woman were against the relationship. They invited Nagaraju on the pretext of discussing the issue and dragged him into a car and drove away. Upon reaching a deserted area, the relatives of the woman tied Nagaraju to the seat and set the vehicle on fire after pouring petrol. The assailants even tried to make it look like an accident by pushing the car into a pit.

Getting information from a passerby, the police reached the spot and tried to pull out Nagaraju of the car but he succumbed to severe burn injuries. The body of the deceased has been handed over to the kin after postmortem. Police have registered a case and a search operation is on for the culprits.