Telangana: Man arrested for killing stepbrother

HYDERABAD: A 22-year-old man was arrested by Dundigal police on Saturday on the charges of killing his stepbrother and trying to portray it as a suicide. During police questioning, the accused confessed to his crime and was booked for murder. Ajjam smothered his stepbrother Sabair with a shawl on the intervening night of June 6 and 7 after a quarrel. “Sabair was addicted to alcohol and would often pick up arguments with Ajjam. On that night, they and Ajjam, using his brother’s shawl, smothered him to death,” said Petbasheerabad ACP AVR Narasimha Rao.
Unaware that his brother had died, Ajjam left the house to go his parents’ house. He came back to check on Sabair the next day and found him dead. “He found his brother lying in the same position with the shawl on his face. He was convinced he had killed his brother. He then tried to convince neighbours that Sabair had committed suicide,” added the officer. The accused was sent to judicial remand.