Heavy security at the victims’ village in Manthani on Thursday
HYDERABAD: Advocate couple, Gattu Vaman Rao and Nagamani, were followed by the assailants’ henchman for nearly three hours before they were hacked to death in Peddapalli district on Wednesday afternoon. “This clearly shows that it was a pre-determined murder,” Ramagundam police commissioner V Satyanarayana told TOI even as three of the accused were arrested on Thursday. Among those nabbed was Kunta Srinivas, local TRS leader and alleged mastermind of the murders.
“The killers used a car with a temporary registration number. They also acquired hunting sickles to commit the crime,” inspector general of police Y Nagi Reddy said. “The conspiracy was well-planned and executed.”
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PEDDAPALLI: The three main accused Kunta Srinivas, Chiranjeevi and Akkapaka Kumar, were arrested in connection with the gruesome daylight killing of the advocate couple Gattu Vama Rao and his wife PV Nagamani on Thursday.
Srinivas and another accused were arrested from Maharashtra border, Inspector General of Police (North Zone) Y Nagi Reddy told reporters in a press meet. Even as the ruling party suspended him several advocates continued to stage protests against the fatal attack.
Kunta Srinivas who is also the TRS Manthani mandal unit president along with two others allegedly attacked lawyer Gattu Vaman Rao and his wife P V Nagamani on Wednesday. It was revealed by the IGP that he bore a grudge against the lawyer over his involvement in certain illegal construction activities in the Gunjapadugu area and the local temple committee matters.
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The black Brezza car used in the crime has been seized
Hyderabad: The Ramagundam police in Telangana has arrested three accused in connection with a lawyer couple s murder. Lawyer couple - Gattu Waman Rao and his wife PV Nagamani - were brutally hacked to death on a highway in full public view on Wednesday near a petrol bunk on the main road of Kalvacharla v/o Ramagiri zone in Godavarikhani sub-division of Peddapalli district under Ramagundam Commissionerate.
The deceased -
Gattu Vaman Rao and Nagmani - who hailed from Hyderabad attended a function at the court in Manthani and were returning when they were waylaid and hacked to death.
Telangana: Lawyer Couple, Working on Dalit Man s Custodial Death Case, Hacked to Death
The lawyer couple had last year filed a PIL about the alleged custodial death of a Dalit man, Seelam Rangaiah, who was found hanging in the toilet of the Manthani police station.
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New Delhi: A lawyer couple from Telangana was on Wednesday hacked to death by unidentified assailants on a road in broad daylight, near Ramagundam, news reports said.
According to the
Hindu, lawyers Gattu Vaman Rao and P.V. Nagamani were attacked around 3 pm while they were returning to Hyderabad in their car after attending a court case in Manthani. They were practising lawyers at the Telangana high court in Hyderabad.