Visakhapatnam: eight, including a juvenile, held in murder case
The Hindu
Minor conflict between two groups of friends is cause for the murder, say police
The Visakhapatnam City Police on Saturday cracked the sensational murder case of 23-year-old youth Rebaka Sai Teja, and arrested seven accused and a juvenile in conflict with law was taken into custody.
Sai Teja was hacked to death in the early hours of May 27 and his body was found near the water tank close to the railway quarters in Marripalem.
The arrested were identified as Bangar Raju (21), Mohammed Yusuf Khan (20), Vempali Ravi Kumar (24), Paradeva Jayanth (20), Borisetti Mohan (24), Sampathirao Suresh (22) and Seepana Suresh (20). The juvenile was sent to the correction home. All are residents of Marripalem area.
Speaking about the case, Deputy Commissioner of Police Garud Sumit Sunil said that the youth was murdered for a very petty issue and it was based on minor conflict between two groups of friends.
Prior to the murder, about three months ago, the deceased and his friend Sai Kumar alias Nani beat up a person at Mahata Colony for looking at them scornfully. At that time one of the accused Bangar Raju tried to intervene and even he was beaten up by the duo.
Since then he had nursed a grudge on the deceased and his friend Nani.
On May 26, when the deceased was present at Mahata Colony along with his friends Balu and Hari, two of Bangar Raju’s friends Mohan and Suresh quarrelled with them, raising the old issue.