22-year-old stabbed to death

Hyderabad: Suspecting that their friend was branding them as thieves and even informing police about their activities, a group of youngsters killed a fruit vendor on Saturday, in Hussainialam. Police reportedly picked up some of the suspects.

The victim was Syed Zubair Ali, 22, a fruit vendor from Bahadurpura. According to Hussainialam inspector G Naresh Kumar, Zubair Ali left his house on Friday night and did not return.

On Saturday, his body was found in an under construction building on Asha Talkies road. “Zubair Ali was found dead in the building with multiple stab injuries. Clues team gathered evidence from the crime scene and the body was handed over to the family members after the postmortem,” the inspector said. A case was registered under section 302 of the IPC.

During the preliminary investigation, police found out that Zubair Ali met with a some friends after leaving the house and they have consumed liquor.

“Some friends of Zubair, who were involved in petty offences suspect that he was informing about them to police and also branding them as thieves on Instagram. We suspect that some of his friends took him to the under construction building and after a confrontation and stabbed him to death,” said a Hussainialam police official.