Telangana: Lawyer Couple, Working on Dalit Man s Custodial Death Case, Hacked to Death
The lawyer couple had last year filed a PIL about the alleged custodial death of a Dalit man, Seelam Rangaiah, who was found hanging in the toilet of the Manthani police station.
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New Delhi: A lawyer couple from Telangana was on Wednesday hacked to death by unidentified assailants on a road in broad daylight, near Ramagundam, news reports said.
According to the
Hindu, lawyers Gattu Vaman Rao and P.V. Nagamani were attacked around 3 pm while they were returning to Hyderabad in their car after attending a court case in Manthani. They were practising lawyers at the Telangana high court in Hyderabad.
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The brutal murder of the High Court lawyer couple Gattu Vamana Rao and Nagamani in broad daylight has sent shock waves across the State of Telangana. As per the dying man s testimony recorded by an onlooker, the advocate had named former MPTC, TRS mandal president from Manthani, Kunta Srinivas, in the attack.
Police have registered a case against three people in connection with the murder of the lawyer couple. Kunta Srinivas, Akkapaka Kumar and Vasantha Rao of Gunjanipadugu village were said to be the key accused after Vaman Rao s father Gattu Kishan Rao lodged a complaint against them. Akkapaka Kumar, one of the main accused, is currently in police custody, Commissioner Satyanarayana told Sakshi. It is noteworthy that only one of the two who escaped the murder is in their custody. Whether the main accused Kunta Srinivas has been arrested or not is likely to be know
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Telangana lawyer-couple murder: Expelled TRS leader Srinivas Kunta, two others arrested
The main accused, expelled TRS leader Kunta Srinivas, along with the other two accused, Chiranjeevi and Kumar were arrested from Maharashtra. Local lawyers protest after the shocking broad daylight murder, demand justice for victims
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Updated: Feb 19, 2021, 12:02 AM IST
The Telangana Police on Thursday (February 18) arrested the three main accused in the twin murders of lawyer-couple G Vaman Rao and his wife PV Nagamani.
The main accused, expelled TRS leader Kunta Srinivas, along with the other two accused, Chiranjeevi and Kumar were arrested from Maharashtra s Chandrapur, where they were in hiding, reported News18.com. The police have also seized the black car used in the crime.