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Hyderabad: Couple hires people to get son murdered

A week later, while the investigation was still in progress, the police found skeletal remains of a man in Vampuguda.

Hyderabad: Unable to cope with endless physical abuse, a couple hired people to murder their elder son a day after their silver jubilee wedding anniversary.

The couple even lodged a missing complaint with the police in order to appear clean.

However, the police made a breakthrough and nabbed five of the six accused in the case and produced them before the court for judicial remand on Wednesday.

On May 3, P. Srinivas, 45, a resident of Vampuguda, Kapra lodged a complaint with the Jawaharnagar police that his elder son Sai Kumar had gone missing from the home and requested the police to trace him.

A week later, while the investigation was still in progress, the police found skeletal remains of a man in Vampuguda. It was eventually learnt that they were Sai Kumar’s skeletal remains and also that he had been killed by a group of people.

Further, one G. Sandeep Kumar, a resident of the same area, confessed to killing Sai Kumar along with the latter’s brother and two other friends at the behest of his parents.

Jawaharnagar inspector R. Saidulu said that the complainant Srinivas and his wife Manemma, 41, had been working as outsourcing employees (sweepers) with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Their elder son Sai Kumar, a painter, was a physically abusive alcoholic while their younger son Sandeep had been working as a driver.

“Unable to bear the constant harassment, the couple decided to eliminate Sai Kumar. They discussed the same with Sandeep, who agreed but was waiting for the right time. The couple celebrated their silver jubilee wedding anniversary on April 25 but didn’t inform Sai Kumar about it. However, when he found out the next day, he beat up his mother and younger brother, and that is when they decided that they had had enough,” the inspector said.

The same night (April 26) Srinivas and Manemma offered money to Sandeep’s friends Faiz, 19, G. Sandeep Kumar, 21, and Ibrahim to kill Sai Kumar.

“Sandeep and his friends killed Sai Kumar in the evening on April 26 while he was busy getting drunk. They slit his throat with shards of his own alcohol bottle and then beat him to death using boulders,” the inspector said. Ibrahim is still on the run.

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