Cyberabad police arrest eight supari killers for killing man in Rajendranagar

HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad Police on Saturday arrested a gang of ‘supari killers’ who killed a man at Rajendranagar earlier this week. The police seized a four-wheeler, a two-wheeler, knives, pepper spray and Rs 25,000 from them.

Disclosing the details before the media, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rajendranagar R Jagadeshwar Reddy said that the accused were identified as Vinod Singh (25), Gopi Kishan (27), Mohammad Akbar (45), Syed Shahbaz (30), Syed Irfan (24), Syed Mahaboob (30), Mohammad Majid (25) and Mohammad Afsar Pasha (28).

The DCP said that the victim, B Rahul Singh (25), a resident of Manikonda, was a relative of Vinod and Gopi. The investigation revealed that Gopi and Vinod had some disputes with Rahul Singh over the sharing of ancestral property at Manikonda. To avoid payment of share of sale proceedings of two duplex houses amounting to Rs 60 lakh to Rahul Singh, they decided to eliminate him and struck a deal with Akbar, a real estate broker from Tolichowki, he said.

Jagadeshwar Reddy said that Akbar agreed to kill Rahul and the deal was fixed for Rs 15 lakh. Gopi and Vinod had paid an initial amount of Rs 10 lakh to Akbar who, along with his associates, kept a watch on Rahul and killed him when he was going home from the gym at Rajendranagar, he said, and added that all the accused were sent to judicial remand.