HYDERABAD: The suspicious death of 71-year-old businessman G. Anji Reddy, who was found with injuries in the parking lot of a supermarket complex on September 29 night has turned out to be a pre-planned murder.
Police has picked up Rajesh for the murder, who reportedly confessed that he along with others had tried to acquire Anji Reddy’s property and had murdered him.
A resident of Walker Town in Padmaraonagar, police sources said Rajesh had lured Anji Reddy to a meeting at the building on the promise of completing the formalities of buying his house.
According to CCTV footage collected by Gopalpuram police, Rajesh and Anji Reddy, in separate cars, were seen entering the parking lot around 5.30 pm, police sources said.
Rajesh and his associates attacked Anji Reddy in a car and made it look like an accident, police sources said. Rajesh had reportedly taken Anji Reddy’s signatures on the house documents before murdering him, sources said.
“I received a call from my dad’s close friend Ravi Devenani at 9.15 pm informing that my father was lying unconscious in the basement parking,” the victim’s son G. Charan Reddy said. “On reaching there, I tried to enquire from Rajesh, who bluntly stated that he was unaware that my father was in the complex,” Charan Reddy said.
“My father was lying on the floor for more than 90 minutes. The mall management told me that they were trying to book an ambulance. There are no CCTV cameras inside the parking lot and I suspected foul play in my father’s death,” Charan said.
Rajesh, who is the prime accused, made it look like a murder for robbery by removing two gold rings, a gold chain and a wrist watch from the victim's body, police said.
After Charan lodged a complaint, Gopalpuram police picked up Rajesh and altered the case from one of suspicious death to murder case.
