Khammam police cracks elderly couple’s murder case within a month, eight arrested

On Friday, Commissioner of Police Sunil Dutt shared details about the arrest of the accused. The individuals arrested include Shaik Abid alias Abid Ali from Moguluru, Kanchikacharla mandal in NTR district; Chittiprolu Suresh alias Srinivas Rao from Narayanapuram; Shaik Shabeena from Tammarabandapalem; Shaik Hussain Bee from Kodad in Suryapet district; Anumola Anil Kumar from Khammam; Shaik Jamal Bee from Buddaram village in Nelakondapalli mandal; Chaganti Manikanta from Khammam; and Shaik Fareed Ahamed from Jaggayyapeta, AP.

Khammam: Khammam police have cracked an elderly couple’s murder and robbery case within a month and arrested eight persons involved in it. It might be recalled that the couple, Yerra Venkata Ramana and Krishna Kumari were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their residence at Kotha Kothur of Nelakondapalli mandal in the district on November 27.

Commissioner of Police, Sunil Dutt shared the details of the arrest of the accused with the media here on Friday. Shaik Abid alias Abid Ali (A1) of Moguluru, Kanchikacharla mandal in NTR district, Chittiprolu Suresh alias Srinivas Rao of Narayanapuram, Shaik Shabeena of Tammarabandapalem and Shaik Hussain Bee of Kodad in Suryapet district, Anumola Anil Kumar of Khammam, Shaik Jamal Bee of Buddaram village in Nelakondapalli mandal, Chaganti Manikanta of Khammam and Shaik Fareed Ahamed of Jaggayyapeta, AP were the arrested persons.

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They were arrested after Abid was caught during a vehicle inspection by Kusumanchi Inspector of Police, Sanjeeva Rao and staff under the supervision of Rural ACP, Tirupathi Reddy at Painampally check post in Nelakandapalli mandal on Thursday night.

Abid, during interrogation confessed to police that he was accused of murdering a man in 2011 under Kanchikacharla police station limits and was sentenced to life imprisonment in that case in 2014. He was released on parole from Rajahmundry jail in 2020 and was absconding. Then he came to Kodad and introduced himself to the locals with the alias Sohail.
There he came in contact with Hussaini Bee and had an extra-marital relationship with her. Later he got in touch with Suresh (a homosexual) and maintained physical relationship with him. He used visit his relative Fareed Ahamed in Khammam and through him he befriended Anil.

Abid, who apparently had plans to commit crimes, procured ten SIM cards from Manikanta in a phased manner without identity proof by paying Rs 1000 per card so that he could not be traced if committed crimes. He also took a room on rent at Bogumkunta in Khammam for his stay besides purchasing a second hand motorbike and altered the number plate.

In due course of time Hussain Bee introduced her friend Jamal Bee’s niece Shabeena to the A1 and that acquaintance with her turned into a physical relationship. Abid, who planned to earn money by stealing, consulted Jamaal Bee.
Jamal Bee told the A1 that a PDS rice trader, Venkata Ramana had a good deal of money; lives with his wife and there was a portion available for rent in their house. Then Abid along with Suresh, Shabeena, Hussain Bee and Jamal Bee planned to commit a theft in Venkata Ramana’s house.

After a failed attempt to rent the house portion, Abid handed over the task to Shabeena and Hussain Bee, who rented the house in the second week of November and acted nicely with the landlords. On November 25 night Abid and Suresh reached Nelakandapalli on the motorcycle and entered the rented house unnoticed.
The next night as Shabeena and Hussain Bee engaged Krishna Kumari in a conversation while watching TV in the latter’s home, Suresh and Abid barged into the home, strangled Krishna Kumari to death, stole gold on her body as well as the gold in the home. Then they searched for gold in the next room in which Venkata Ramana was present and he was also strangled to death by the duo.