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Gang uses honey trap to lure & kill rival
Kankipadu police arrested six persons, including four women, for murdering one Shaik Rafi at Punadipadu village n Kankipadu mandal of Krishna district on June 21, one of the members of rival gang.The accused bore a grudge against the victim Shaik Rafi (26) of Mangalagiri, due to an old rivalry between the two gangs who were involved in many criminal cases in Mangalagiri.
Vijayawada: Kankipadu police arrested six persons, including four women, for murdering one Shaik Rafi at Punadipadu village n Kankipadu mandal of Krishna district on June 21, one of the members of rival gang.The accused bore a grudge against the victim Shaik Rafi (26) of Mangalagiri, due to an old rivalry between the two gangs who were involved in many criminal cases in Mangalagiri.
Highlights:
- Six members of gang hacked Shaik Rafi to death on June 21
- Accused cleverly used FB to trap the victim and kills by inviting him to Kankipadu in the name of meeting a girl
- Fake FB account is created with a name of girl and attracted the victim to take revenge
Deputy commissioner of Police Kranti Rana produced the six members gang before the media at his office in Suryaraopet on Saturday. The accused were identified as Gajula Gopichand, Pala Chanti, Gajula Lakshmi, Gajula Mallika, Pala Rani, Gajula Krishnaveni and were taken into custody within 24 hours of the murder.
The gang attacked Rafi with a pestle, knives and brutally murdered him on June 21 at Punadipadu village. Most of the gang members belonging to one family and nursed the grudge against Rafi, who was accused of murdering Gajula Kanaka Rao, who was one of the members of the gang, and son of the accused Gajula Lakshmi.
Gajula Kanaka Rao’s mother Lakshmi, wife Mallika, sister Rani, brother Gopinath and Gopinath’s wife Krishnaveni and Kanaka Rao’s relative Chanti were involved in the murder, said the DCP. He said the gang had cleverly used FaceBook to trap the victim and successfully invited to Kankipadu on the pretext of meeting a girl (fake name), who has been chatting with him since June 14.
The gang created a fake FB account in the name of ‘Oopiri’ and started chatting on FB with Rafi from June 14 and invited Rafi to come to Kankipadu. Unaware of the conspiracy, Rafi with his friend Jabbar came to Kankipadu on June 21 evening to meet the girl near a corporate college and was hacked to death. Jabbar luckily escaped on the bike with injuries.
As soon as Rafi arrived near the isolated area near a corporate college, the gang attacked him with knives and pestle and hacked him to death, said DCP Rana. He said the police recovered the weapons used to murder Rafi. He said disputes between the two criminal gangs in Mangalagiri led to the murder of Kanaka Rao earlier and now Shaik Rafi.
He said the accused gang left Mangalagiri two years ago and settled in Kankipadu mandal of Krishna district after many years of disputes with rival criminal gang. But, some members of the other gang have threatened several occasions that they would kill the gang members. The DCP said disputes between the two gangs had been continuing for many years.
