Reddy spoke to her father Jonathan Surendra Prasad and extended heartfelt condolences and sympathies, official sources said here today.
"Maharashtra Chief Minister is being contacted by our Chief Minister to request to constitute a special police team to speed up the investigation," sources said.
In Machilipatnam, Minister for Secondary Education and Excise K. Pardha Saradhi, former deputy Speaker of state Assembly B. Vedyavyas and a number of local Congress leaders visited the bereaved family and expressed their sympathies.
Employed with a reputed software company in Mumbai, Anuhya went missing from the city on January 4, until her body was discovered in suburban Kanjurmarg.
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The doctors, who medically examined her body said, the injuries found on her body and private parts were caused by a blunt object.
The cause of her death and sexual assault, if there was any, however, is being ascertained through chemical analysis being done by forensic experts.