Overview
- Police say G. Venkata Ratnam, 54, was boxed in by an auto-rickshaw and a motorcycle, dragged from his scooter, stabbed multiple times and shot on a Jawaharnagar road.
- Six suspects, including alleged mastermind Chandan Singh, surrendered at a city police station within hours and were handed to Jawaharnagar investigators.
- Investigators are pursuing a revenge lead tied to a 1999 police encounter in which Chandan’s father, Sudesh Singh, was killed, with police sources saying Chandan believed Ratnam betrayed him.
- Detectives say the group surveilled Ratnam for weeks and that some participants were associates from Chandan’s auto workshop involved in planning the attack.
- Police formed multiple teams, ordered a scene reconstruction, are conducting ballistic analysis after bullet recovery, ruled out a recent client dispute, and are reviewing the victim’s older Mangalhat rowdy-sheet.