ANANTAPUR: Raptadu MLA Paritala Sunita's brother Balaji and T Vinay Kumar, main accused in the murder of Kanaganapalle former MPP Tagarakunta Konda Reddy on February 22, were arrested today by the district police along with nine others in the case.
According to superintendent of police Shah Nawaz Hussain, the police, recovered from their posession three firearms including a revolver, a pistol and a tapancha along with four hunting sickles, three motorcycles, nine cellphones and Rs 1.54 lakh cash
Senior Congress leader from the district and former MPP Tagarakunta Konda Reddy was murdered at his house in Anantapur by unidentified miscreants on February 22 evening at around 7 p.m. He died on the spot. At that time fingers were pointed out at Paritala's family members, but Sunita had vehemently denied it. Konda Reddy was one of the accused in Paritala Ravi's murder case.
Police in course of investigation zeroed in on Balaji, brother of Sunita, L Narayana Chowdary, uncle of slain TDP leader Paritala Ravindra, T Vinay Kumar, son of Kanaganapalle former MPP T Prabhakar, who was murdered several years ago, allegedly by Tagarakunta Konda Reddy and his followers.
Balaji, Vinay and nine others were apprehended by the police while Narayana Chowdary and some others are still at large.