Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police has unearthed chilling details from the plotting that led to the fatal attack on steel unit owner T. Ramprasad, including how one of the alleged assailants was persuaded to participate in the murder.
Joint commissioner A.R. Srinivas said that on June 28, Shyam Sunder, an accused in the murder, and Pulivarthi Bala Naga Anjaneya Prasad, who attacked the victim, came from Vijayawada to Hyderabad and stayed at a lodge in Abids.
They tracked Ramprasad to the Venkateswara Swamy temple in Punjagutta. Police said the main accused Koganti Satyanarayana lured Anjaneya Prasad into the plot by helping him get his father-in-law’s premises vacated by a tenant who had filed a civil case. To return the favour, he had to murder Ramprasad.
Satyanarayana and Shyam Sunder also roped in others identified as Tirupathi Suresh Chandika Anand, Sriram Ramesh, Sheik Azharuddin, Pathipati Naresh and Venkat Ram Reddy.
The gang mounted surveillance at Ramprasad’s factory at Parigi, his residence at Khajaguda, Gachibowli and near his office at Durganagar in Panjagutta. They chose Durganagar to attack him. When Ramprasad went to the Balaji temple, Anjaneya Prasad was already there. When he came out, they attacked him.
