HYDERABAD: A farmer was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his relative, a woman, by running over her with an autorickshaw trolley and tried to pass it off as a road accident at Macharam village in Mahbubnagar district.
At 4.30pm on Saturday, S Shailaja,40, her husband Yadaiah,44, also a farmer, and their five-year-old daughter Niharika were travelling on a bike.
An auto trolley first hit their vehicle from the rear. The trio fell off the vehicle and suffered bleeding injuries. The trolley took a U-turn and returned to the place and ran over the injured Shailaja. She died on the spot, Mahbubnagar superintendent of police Rema Rajeshwari said. The locals tried to catch the trolley driver, but he escaped from the spot. When police reached the spot, the locals informed them that it was not an accident as the driver deliberately ran over the victim.
After preliminary investigation, police took K Narasimhulu into custody.
They discovered that Narasimhulu had conspired and tried to eliminate the entire family as he had a property dispute with the victims.
“Both the victims and the accused are relatives and are into farming. They have property disputes from a long time. To eliminate the victims, Narasimhulu hatched the plan with the support of two others, K Yadagiri and K Mahesh,’’ the SP said.