Hyderabad: Friends turn foes, tiff ends in murder

HYDERABAD: Fearing a history-sheeter might finish them, two brothers, in a pre-emptive strike, allegedly killed him at P&T Colony, Saroornagar on Wednesday night. They had a dispute over a mobile phone. Ironically, the three were friends till they moved to different areas.
Saroornagar police said photographer Vinay Kumar,31, a resident of Chatrinaka, and the accused— Santosh Kumar and Sandeep Kumar— had a heated argument on Wednesday over a transaction about a mobile phone.
“The accused and the victim during an argument on phone late on Wednesday night, decided to meet at P&T colony to have fight. The accused, who feared that Vinay might attack them, carried a knife and stabbed him on throat and other parts of the body,’’ Saroornagar inspector E Srinivas Reddy told TOI.
After killing the victim, the duo called up Vinay’s family members and informed them about the attack. The worried family members called ‘Dial-100’ and police reached the spot and shifted a profusely Vinay to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead. In the past, the accused and victim were friends and used to reside at P&T Colony before they moved out. The three were previously involved in criminal cases. Police said a case was registered under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC.