Hyderabad, March 23: Police on Tuesday arrested seven members of a gang for the murder of a 52-year-old woman in Sai Nagar colony near Nagole on February 26.
The arrested include M Janardhan, 29, M Praveen alias Jittu, 29, Ch Nagaraju, 25, K Bhaskar Reddy, 30, U Srujana Babu, 21, P Saidulu, P Lachaiah, B Dharmendra, 32, A Janardhan Reddy 44 and K Yadagiri, 47.
They killed Harathi Suvarna Chudamani, wife of one Muralidhar, at her residence on February 26.
According to Cyberabad commissioner of police Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao, Srujan Babu, who is a tenant in Suvarna’s house, and his friend Lachaiah, who is an old offender, hatched a plan along with their friends to rob the family.
In their bid to rob them, they strangled Chudamani to death when she cried for help. When her husband Muralidhar who was in another room came out his legs and hands were tied by the gang before fleeing with gold jewellery and other valuables, Tirumala Rao said.
–Agencies