A woman was found dead in US flat. 8 months later, ‘ex-boyfriend’ nabbed in Agra

4 min learnHyderabadAug 27, 2026 06:45 PM IST

On January 2, Arjun Sharma filed a report with the police in Maryland Metropolis, US, claiming that his ex-girlfriend had been lacking since New 12 months’s eve. The following day, police found the body of 27-year-old Nikitha Rao Godishala, who was from Secunderabad, inside Sharma’s house. By then, the 26-year-old had fled the US, authorities stated.

Her father reached out to Union Minister G Kishan Reddy to induce the Ministry of Exterior Affairs to talk with US authorities to subject a Crimson Nook discover for the arrest of Sharma. “It’s recognized that he fled to India and is hiding someplace…” he stated.

Virtually eight months later, Sharma was arrested from a flat in Agra after a tip-off from officers of the Lalaguda Police Station in Hyderabad.

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“A non-bailable warrant was issued towards him after the murdered lady’s father Anand Ghodishala filed a dishonest case with us. We took the assistance of CID and CBI to know extra about what occurred within the US however we now have no reference to that homicide case. However based mostly on the criticism by the girl’s father that Sharma had cheated the girl after taking a big amount of cash and refusing to return it, we registered our personal FIR,” stated Inspector B Ravi Kiran.

“Primarily based on the dishonest case ready towards Sharma, a non-bailable warrant (NBW) was issued, which ensured that we stored in search of him. We have been looking for his whereabouts after coming to know that he had fled to India from the US after the homicide. We traced him to a flat in Agra and knowledgeable the related authorities,” stated Inspector Kiran.

Sharma has been produced earlier than the Patiala Home Court docket in New Delhi, which offers with extradition instances, police stated. “Now it’s as much as the central authorities to take additional motion,” stated the inspector.

The US, in the meantime, has requested Sharma’s return below the India-US Extradition Treaty.

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A promising life minimize quick

Godishala lived in Ellicott Metropolis, Maryland, the place she labored as an information analyst. She had beforehand accomplished a pharmacy course from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological College in Hyderabad earlier than transferring to the US for a Grasp’s in Well being Info Know-how from the College of Maryland.

In a press launch issued on January 4, Howard County police stated that its personnel positioned a girl, who was reported lacking on January 2, deceased with stab wounds within the house of her ex-boyfriend and obtained a warrant for his arrest on first- and second-degree homicide fees.

“Sharma made the lacking individual report back to police and stated he final noticed his ex-girlfriend on December 31 in his house. Police later realized that on the identical day as making the report, Sharma left the nation on a flight to India… detectives imagine Sharma killed Godishala shortly after 7 pm on December 31,” the discharge said.

Not her ex-boyfriend: Lady’s father

In the meantime, as towards the US police’s declare, Godishala’s father had stated the accused was not her ex-boyfriend, however her “ex-flatmate” and that the 2 had had monetary disagreements.

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Anand Godishala had instructed The Indian Specific that Nikitha had gone to the US in 2021. “She had gone for greater research and had began working there (within the US). It’s not proper to name the accused her ex-boyfriend. He’s her ex-flatmate. 4 of them used to reside in that house. After she began working two years in the past, she moved to a separate flat. I imagine that there was some monetary disagreement with the accused,” he had stated.

Sreenivas Janyala is a Deputy Affiliate Editor at The Indian Specific, the place he serves as some of the authoritative voices on the socio-political and financial panorama of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. With a profession spanning over 20 years in mainstream journalism, he gives deep-dive evaluation and frontline reporting on the intricate dynamics of South Indian governance.

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