Hyderabad: A local leader of TRS in Telangana and two others were arrested in connection with the gruesome daylight killing of a lawyer couple as the ruling party suspended him while advocates staged protests against the fatal attack.
TRS Manthani Mandal unit president Kunta Srinivas along with another person allegedly made the murderous attack on Gattu Vaman Rao and his wife P V Nagamani on Wednesday as he bore some personal grudge, police said, ruling out as of now any political reason behind the killing.
According to police, hours before the crime, Srinivas had attended a programme in Manthani in Peddapalli district as part of celebration of the birthday of Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao. Vaman Rao and his wife, both practising lawyers in Telangana High Court, were travelling in a car when the assailants intercepted the vehicle and attacked them using knives and other sharp weapons on the main road in Peddapalli district, with the incident drawing widespread…
