HYDERABAD: A man who had filed a case against BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao and others, accusing them of being responsible for the collapse of some piers of the Medigadda barrage, was stabbed to death by two unidentified assailants in Bhupalapally town of Telangana‘s Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district on Wednesday night, reports Shiv Kumar Pinna. Police said a land dispute may have led to the murder.
N Rajalinga Murthy was stabbed a day before HC was scheduled to hear KCR’s petition challenging the case filed by him. Murthy had filed a complaint in Oct 2023, seeking filing of an FIR against KCR, former irrigation minister T Harish Rao and others for sinking of pillars of Medigadda barrage that is part of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. He alleged that crores of public money were misappropriated in the project. When cops refused to register an FIR, he approached a local court and filed a private complaint. The case later reached HC.
Murthy was travelling on a bike when the assailants waylaid and stabbed him. Though he tried to flee, he was chased and killed. “We suspect a land dispute could be the motive. Murthy had land disputes with a few local persons,” said a cop.