Congress leader D Yadgiri owed killer cash

Hyderabad: Congress leader D. Yadgiri, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in Bowenpally here on Saturday, had owed money to the shooter Dhakuri Babu for executing a murder on a previous occasion. Babu had been hired to kill a target in 2009, which he did but was not paid the money promised for the killing.

This led to the attempt on Mr Yadgiri, according to a ‘confession’  he made to the police. Yadagiri had ‘promised payment on behalf of two others’.

Mr Babu had been arrested and tried in the case, but was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Now, however, he has told the police that he did the 2009 killing. Police said they are likely to reopen the case based on the present confession, though a confession before police as such has no legal validity.

According to police officials, Mr Babu was hired by two persons, Narsing and Kanaka Raju, to kill their rival Shivraj Yadav. Mr Yadgiri was the mediator for the entire act, between Babu and Narsing.

“Babu was promised by Yadgiri a payment of a few lakhs and a 100-yard plot in the city. Babu was asked to kill rowdy sheeter Shivraj Yadav because Yadav had a land dispute with Narsingh,”  said a senior police official.

After the murder, Mr Yadgiri gave neither the promised money nor the land to Babu.  With the murder of Yadav, Mr Babu earned notoriety in Alwal. Later, he went absconding in another case, and Yadgiri allegedly misused Babu’s name to scare his rivals and settle some land disputes,  but no benefits from these deals had come to Babu, said North Zone DCP B. Sumathi.

The police officials will investigate the ‘confession’  made by Dhakuri Babu as also the suspected shady deals of Yadgiri.