HYDERABAD: A 54-year-old real estate businessman, Ganta Venkata Ratan Kumar, was stabbed and shot dead by six unidentified assailants near a private school in Saketh Colony under Jawaharnagar police station limits around 8 am on Monday. A bullet injury was found on his head. Ratan had been in the construction field for 20 years.
Police said he had returned from a morning walk around 7.30 am before taking his younger daughter to Foster Billabong School on his gearless scooter. After dropping her, he was heading home when two men on a scooty and four others in an auto-rickshaw intercepted him near a tennis court and attacked him with knives and a firearm. They fled immediately after killing him, they added.
Ratan sustained multiple stab wounds on his neck, chest, hands, back and other parts of the body. The body was shifted to Gandhi Hospital for a postmortem.
Preliminary inquiry points to past enmity. Clues teams collected evidence from the scene. Speaking to TNIE, a senior police official said Ratan and his family had moved to Medchal nearly five years ago. “We are verifying his past involvement in criminal cases. About 15 years ago, he reportedly worked with a rowdy sheeter. There are no cases registered against him at Jawaharnagar police station. We are gathering details of those earlier cases and suspect they may be linked to the attack,” the official said.
Jawaharnagar police have registered a case and some suspects have been identified.