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Elderly man murdered in Hanamkonda
Murder culture seems to be spreading in Warangal city with a 65-year-old retired employee was murdered during morning hours in a residential area in Hanamkonda on Friday.
Hanamkonda: Murder culture seems to be spreading in Warangal city with a 65-year-old retired employee was murdered during morning hours in a residential area in Hanamkonda on Friday.
The murder was the third one to take place during last one month time. It might be noted that on July 13, TRS corporator Anisetti Murali was murders by his rivals and on June 20, a six-year-old boy was murdered and left in an auto-rickshaw in Warangal.
The deceased was identified as Siddampalli Sambaiah (65) of Gollapalli Colony and retired from services as lab technician at MGM Hospital.
According to police, the incident occurred when Sambaiah was returning home after leaving the lunch box for his grandson studying at a private school at Reddy Colony in Hanamkonda. It was suspected that the son-in-law of the deceased, P Mahender was behind the incident.
According to eye-witness accounts, the assailant had chucked chilli power at his victim’s face and later slit his throat with a knife and escaped from the spot leaving the old man in a pool of blood by the side the road. Sambaiah died on the spot.
Hanamkonda CI A Sampath Rao told presspersons that Sambaiah’s family members suspected the role of Mahender in the murder as the latter had disputes with his father-in-law for some time.
‘We booked a case a launched investigation into the incident’, he added. Sambaiah’s elder daughter Shobha complained that Mahender demanding additional dowry and has been harassing her sister Jyothi, a nurse at MGM Hospital, since their marriage.
He was said to be having an extra-marital affair with another woman and used to beat his wife for questioning him.
‘After we lodged complaint against Mahender at women’s police station, he used to quarrel with my father often and even beaten him once’, Shobha told presspersons.
