Rajireddy’s murder due to previous disputes: DSP

Metro India News | KAMAREDDY

The murder of Rajireddy from Lingapur was committed due to previous enmity, according to Kamareddy District DSP Madhusudan.Addressing a press conference held at the DSP office on Sunday evening, the DSP revealed the details of the murder case.DSP Madhusudan said that Manchala Ellayya and his son Praneeth Kumar, also from Lingapur, hatched a plan and called Rajireddy to their house. They brutally murdered him by hitting him on the head with an iron rod from behind and then strangling him in the cattle shed.

The victim’s son, Bandari Ranjit, lodged a complaint on Saturday night, after which Devunipally SI Ranjit and CI Sridhar Goud registered a case and began investigation.In his complaint, Ranjit mentioned that his father Rajireddy had old enmity with Manchala Ellayya and that his father was missing. During interrogation, the accused Manchala Ellayya and his son Praneeth Kumar confessed that they had murdered Bandari Rajireddy due to the longstanding grudge.

After killing him in the cattle shed, the accused took the body to a nearby abandoned well belonging to Bandari Yadav Reddy and buried it there, with the intention of destroying all evidence. The police seized three mobile phones, a motorcycle, and the iron rod used in the murder from the accused. The body was shifted to Kamareddy Government Hospital for postmortem and later handed over to the family.DSP Madhusudan announced that both the accused — Manchala Ellayya and his son Praneeth Kumar — have been arrested and remanded to judicial custody.

The DSP congratulated the police team for cracking the case swiftly. He specially appreciated Kamareddy Rural CI Sridhar Goud, Town CI Narahari, Bhikkanur CI Naresh, SI Bhuvaneshwar Rao, and constables Ravi, Kiran, Ravi, Ramu and Om Prakash for their excellent work in solving the murder case.