Telangana: Truck driver kills cleaner, surrenders

HYDERABAD: The driver of a truck killed its cleaner near Karimnagar after an argument with him and drove with the body in the truck’s cabin for over 200 km till Konijerla in Khammam and surrendered before the police on Sunday.
The accused, N Raju (48) and the deceased B Raju (45) were residents of Kakinada. The duo had travelled to Karimnagar from Kakinada and while returning to their hometown with a load of rice grain, an argument broke out between them over tying of tarpaulin near Manakondur in Karimnagar.“The accused claimed that B Raju tried to attack him with a knife and in self-defense he retaliated and killed the cleaner. Both of them were drunk at the time of the incident,” Wyra CI Vasanth Kumar said.
After committing the murder, N Raju kept the body in the berth behind his seat and drove the truck towards Kakinada. En route, after reaching Konijerla police station in Khammam district at around 11 am, Raju surrendered before the police. “The accused parked the truck in front of the police station and surrendered. He claimed that the victim tried to kill him and he retaliated in self- defense. There are multiple stab injuries on the victim’s body and the accused does not have a single injury. So it does not appear to be a case of killing in self-defense,” the CI said.
Police registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC against Raju and arrested him. The victim’s body was handed over to his family members after the postmortem.