Hyd: Miryalguda shuts over Dalit's killing

Hyderabad | Saturday | 15th September, 2018

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She said he had been tracking their movements.The police have reportedly arrested Rao, who allegedly hired a killer to murder Pranay. Scanning of CCTV images of the last few days by the police also revealed that the killer had conducted a recce of the area. Amrutha's uncle T Shravan was also detained.CCTV cameras near the hospital captured the gruesome crime. Since then, he was facing threats to his life, according to informed sources.Amrutha, who is five-months pregnant, told reporters that her father Maruthi Rao was behind the murder. HYDERABAD: A shutdown was imposed in Telangana 's Miryalguda town on Saturday over the murder of a Dalit man in an apparent case of honour killing.Shops and business establishments remained closed in the town in Nalgonda district , about 150 km from Hyderabad.Dalit organisations took out rallies, demanding justice for the family of 23-year-old Pranay Kumar, who was hacked to death on Friday as he was coming out of a hospital along with his wife Amrutha Varshini, with whom he had an inter-caste marriage six months ago.They were in love since their school days and had married against the wishes of the girl's parents..