Overview
- Neighbours alerted police to a foul smell and officers found four decomposed bodies inside a locked Nalgonda home on Monday, June 22.
- Nalgonda police say Syed Aslam, a relative, planned the attack to steal cash, gold and land or bank papers and then killed the family with multiple stab wounds.
- Investigators arrested four people — Aslam, his wife Tabassum, Mohammed Sohail and jeweller Hemanth Kumar — and seized about ₹30 lakh in cash, a five-tola lump of melted gold, a vehicle, a knife, mobile phones, blood-stained clothes and documents.
- Police say technical evidence including CCTV, phone-location data and forensic seizures linked the arrests and contradict earlier reports that external 'supari' hit men were hired by an estranged daughter.
- The probe is ongoing with post-mortem and legal processes pending and police say recovered assets show the stolen jewellery was partly pledged or melted and converted to cash.