Four held for murder of man who went missing in Andhra Pradesh

Visakhapatnam: The case of a

missing

man turned out to be a murder which was solved by

Vizianagaram police

who arrested four persons in connection with the case. Cops ascertained that rivalry over relationship with a woman led to the murder of K Ravi, a native of Pinavemali village, who had gone missing and was found dead in a well on the village outskirts on February 17.

A few days back, police found a clue and caught the accused who confessed to the crime. The accused were identified as Bali Pydiraju and his friends G Narayana Rao, K Uday Kiran and I Satyanarayana.

Vizianagaram police chief B Raja Kumari said that the victim and prime accused were in a dispute as they were both involved in an affair with one woman. As a result, Pydiraju decided to eliminate Raju whom he invited for a liquor party on the outskirts and when Raju passed out after drinking, Pydiraju strangled him.

Later, Pydiraju and his friends tried to portray the murder as a suicide by hanging the body from a tree but this failed as the body fell down. Later, they dumped the body in a well.