Hyderabad: A man who had filed a case against BRS president and former chief minister 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 Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district on Wednesday night. Police said a land dispute may have led to the murder.
N Rajalinga Murthy was stabbed a day before the high court was scheduled to hear KCR’s petition challenging the case filed by him.
Murthy was travelling on a bike when the assailants waylaid and stabbed him around 7.30 pm. Though the victim tried to escape, he was chased and killed.
“We suspect that a land dispute could be the motive. Murthy had land disputes with a few local persons,” deputy SP Sampath Rao told TOI. Police said special teams had been formed to track down the assailants.
Murthy had filed a complaint at the Bhupalpally police station in Oct 2023, seeking registration of an FIR against KCR, former irrigation minister T Harish Rao and others for sinking of the pillars of the Medigadda barrage that is part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. He alleged that crores of rupees of public money were misappropriated in the Kaleshwaram project. When police refused to register an FIR, he approached a local court and filed a private complaint. The case later reached the high court.
Murthy had joined Congress before the 2023 assembly elections. His wife Sarala is a former councillor in Bhupalapally municipality.
