Overview
- The alleged mastermind, Mekala Venu Madhava Reddy, was arrested along with Pokala Koteswara Rao, Shaik Abdul Hafeez, and Mohammed Azmath Ali Khan.
- Investigators say Srinivas was lured on February 13 on the pretext of a payment, killed between Nakrekal and Jangaon, and his body and car were dumped in Palair reservoir.
- Police link the motive to an alleged Rs 90 lakh GST fraud using Srinivas’s Boggula BBQ registration, citing unpaid dues and a cancelled license that escalated the dispute.
- Officers say Rs 5 lakh was paid to the alleged assailants as supari and that the accused have confessed, with charges for murder, conspiracy, and evidence tampering filed under the BNS at Kusumanchi police station.
- All four have been remanded in judicial custody, and further investigation is underway.