Reddy

Kerala

Andhra Pradesh

Jyothi Uday

Bengaluru

CCTV

Anantapur

Cubbon Park

AP

Madanapalle

Chittoor

Kadapa

The notorious ATM attacker, Madhukar, has told the police that in the years after the 2013 attack when he was on the run, he followed news on TV and stayed away from places where the police were hunting for him. He was hiding infor almost a year and went back to his native state ofonly after he was convinced that the coast was clear.The 32-year-old man is accused of attacking Jyothi Uday with a machete on November 19, 2013 inside an ATM booth in. The crime, which was caught on, had chilled the nation to its bones. But despite the outrage the attack drew, Reddy proved to be slippery and evaded arrest for over three years. He was eventually caught last month in Andhra Pradesh.As the investigation in the case progressed, police officers questioning Reddy said he was cooperating well. It was during one of these sessions that he revealed that after the attack on Jyothi and “killing” a woman indistrict, he was keenly following news channels on TV to learn about the police’s whereabouts. This is when he decided to escape to Kerala and lay low till the dust had settled on the case. He even changed his appearance to avoid being identified.On Wednesday, Reddy was taken by the police team to the ATM booth where he had allegedly attacked Jyothi, as well as other places where he spent time.Reddy told the police that he came to the city on November 16, 2013 and spent two days in thearea with no money even to buy food. He claimed it was hunger that compelled him to go after Jyothi into the ATM booth and attack her when she refused to part with her cash.A senior police officer said: “We are reconstructing the crime scene now and the identification parade is yet to be done. We have spoken to Jyothi about the procedure. We will approach an assistant commissioner to give his time to finish the procedure.”Interestingly, Reddy, who was produced before the judge on Tuesday, told in the court hall that he will not have any advocate to argue on his favour, and he himself will contest the prosecution.Reddy was caught by thepolice in February inindistrict. The police also learnt later that he was serving life sentence for murder incentral jail in 2011 and had escaped from there. He had killed a person in his village in 2006.