Karimnagar: Youngster, missing for two months, found murdered in abandoned well

Four people, including a woman, have reportedly been detained in connection with the incident

Karimnagar: A 29-year-old youngster from Manakondur mandal, Ananthoju Saikiran, who went missing two months ago, was found murdered in Dahegaon Mandal of Kumram Bheem Asifabad district on Saturday. The Manakondur police arrested four persons in connection with the murder and produced them in the court.

According to the police, Saikiran’s wife Anusha had expressed doubts on his previous colleagues, following which police began investigation in that angle and cracked the case. Karimnagar Rural ACP Venkatarama, said Saikiran, who was working in a saw mill, had left home on April 18 after informing his family that he was going to work. As he did not return home, Anusha lodged a complaint with the police after enquiring with relatives.

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Police said Saikiran and Anusha had had worked in a poultry farm in Kondapur, Miridoddi mandal of Siddipet district, where they met Batti Srinivas and his wife Sunitha, both natives of Bejjur mandal of Kumram Bheem Asifabad. Both the families used to move closely.

It is said that Saikiran had misbehaved with Sunitha, following which Saikiran and Srinivas had a scuffle. Saikiran then left the farm and returned to Manakondur and worked in a saw mill. On April 18, Saikiran went back to the poultry farm and quarreled with Srinivas and Sunitha. He sustained bleeding injuries in the scuffle. The poultry farm owner informed Anusha about this over phone. Though Srinivas and Sunitha went to their native village after the incident, Saikiran allegedly began harassing them by calling them repeatedly on phone. They then decided to eliminate Saikiran and asked him to come to Dahegaon, Sunitha’s maternal home.

When Saikiran reached there in the night, Srinivas, Sunitha, Thummadi Gangaram and Bheemkar Shyam Rao bludgeoned him to death with boulders and dumped the body in a defunct agricultural well, where the body was found on Saturday. They had then fled to Maharashtra. The Manakondur police arrested them and booked them under sections 302, 201, 120-B, read with Section 34 of the IPC.