On Thursday, a man identified as Mahboob Pasha was brutally murdered in broad daylight on a National Highway 65 near Rudraram village, Sangareddy district, by three unidentified assailants who fled the scene on a motorcycle after the crime. Police suspect gang rivalry and a revenge plot in the murder.

Traffic came to a halt because of the murder and no onlookers came to the rescue of the deceased but tried capturing the incident on their phones. After receiving the information, Sangareddy SP and his team visited the crime scene to examine it.

According to police, the victim, a resident of Bholakpur in Hyderabad, is a prime accused in the murder of Arshad Hussain in Patancheru a couple of years ago. They suspect that Arshad’s gang must have taken revenge for the murder. Police have sent the body for autopsy.

Speaking to media, Sangareddy SP Chandrashekhar said, “We suspect a gang rivalry. Mehboob is the prime accused in an old murder case, we suspect that the rival gang killed him as revenge. Today when Mehboob was returning from Sangareddy after attending a court hearing relating to the murder in which he was accused, he was murdered. We are looking for the assailants. We will catch them soon.”

Police have registered a case under section IPC 302 (murder).

This crime is similar to the murder which happened last year in September in Hyderabad’s Attapur. On September 28, two accused waylaid and attacked a man accused of murder on the Attapur main road with an axe. In this case too, the victim was going to a court to appear for his hearing. The murder was committed as an act of revenge, police had said then.