5 years after killing Inter student, 4 get life term in Hyderabad | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: Nearly five years after 19-year-old Intermediate student E Sudheer was hacked to death in Kukatpally in full public view while he was on his way to give an exam, four youths were convicted of the crime and awarded life sentence by a court in LB Nagar on Wednesday.
The court also slapped 20,000 fine on each of them. The four – B Naveen (20) and his three associates, Jilla Mahesh (20), K Theja Rao (20) and Ippali Krishna (21) – were convicted under IPC sections of murder, abetting an offence and criminal conspiracy, Arms Act and SC, ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.
“The statements of the eyewitnesses – Meghnath, home guard Anji, a woman who sold sickles to the convicts and the FSL report matching the DNA of the blood stains found on their clothes with the DNA of Sudheer played a key role in getting the conviction,” public prosecutor M Ganga Reddy said after the court verdict.
The four convicts were residents of Moosapet and neighbours of Sudheer, who was killed in broad daylight on Kukatpally main road on March 12, 2018. At around 8.30 am, E Sudheer, Intermediate second year student of Pratibha Junior College in Kukatpally, was attacked with hunting sickles when he was on heading to Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Kukatpally, to appear for economics exam.
Head constable Prabhakar and Anji, who were at the spot on duty, managed to nab Naveen. Three others were nabbed soon after.
Police said rivalry between two groups in the locality was the trigger for the murder and added that one of the accused had a criminal record.