Telangana: Confession in ganja case ends in businessman’s murder

HYDERABAD: A businessman from Karmaghat was murdered after an altercation over a confession in a ganja smuggling case, registered in Tenali in Andhra Pradesh.
His body was exhumed from a farm in Zaheerabad in Sangareddy district on Saturday. Three persons have been taken into custody.
Businessman Madhusudhan Reddy went missing on August 19.
“On Friday (August 20), Madhusudhan’s wife got an SMS from an unknown number informing that her husband was kidnapped.She lodged a missing complaint with the Charminar police. On verifying CCTVs, we did not come across anyone kidnapping the victim,” police said.
Subsequently, police began gathering details of the phone number from which the message was sent and took one Jagannath into custody. On interrogation, Jagannath disclosed that Madhusudhan was murdered and his body was buried in an agriculture field in Zaheerabad, police said. A team went to Zaheerabad and exhumed the body on Saturday.
Police discovered that Madhusudhan, who was an accused in a murder case, became friends with one Sanju Kumar when they were in Chanchalguda jail a few years ago. After coming out on bail, they became close friends.
Later, Madhusudhan facilitated Sanju Kumar to get a mortgage loan of Rs 40 lakh. A few days ago, Sanju Kumar’s brother and sister were caught by Tenali police of AP while they were allegedly transporting ganja in a lorry. When asked about the lorry, the siblings, in their confession to police, reportedly claimed that the vehicle was arranged by Madhusudhan.
“On learning that he was framed by the two, Madhusudhan got annoyed and reprimanded Sanju as the latter’s siblings took the lorry to transport ganja. Later, a heated argument took place between Sanju and Madhusudhan. The victim asked Sanju to return Rs 40 lakh loan facilitated by him,” the investigators said.
On August 19, Sanju asked the victim to meet him near Charminar to collect the money. After the victim came to the spot, Madhusudhan was forced into a car. He was repeatedly beaten, due to which Madhusudhan died, police said.
Police took three people into custody, but were tight-lipped about the case.