Hyderabad: 4 persons arrested for murder

Hyderabad: The Jagadgirigutta police on Saturday arrested 4 persons in connection with the murder of one Fayaz, who was chased and killed on Monday. According to police, the accused persons were identified as, Prashant Reddy, Naresh, Sai Kumar and Shiva.

The accused persons stabbed Fayaz to death by using knives and rods. Jagadgirigutta police Inspector A.

Ganga Reddy said that the accused persons hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Fayaz due to their personal enmity. "The victim Fayaz was falsely implicated in an earlier case by Prashant because Fayaz was in love with a girl and Prashant was also in love with the same girl.

In order to sideline Fayaz, the main accused Prashant falsely implicated him in a murder case by testifying against him, due to which Fayaz was sent to jail." "However he secured bail and after coming out he contacted Prashant and threatened him with dire consequences for falsely testifying against him. So out of fear for his life, Prashant gathered his friends on Monday and invited Fayaz to sort out the issue. When the victim arrived at the scene of offence an argument broke among them and as Fayaz sensed some tension he started running for his life, but was chased and killed by Prashant and his friends," stated the inspector. All the four accused were arrested under section 302 of IPC and will be remanded to judicial custody.