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2 gold merchants murdered for gain

By Our Staff Reporter

SRIKAKULAM, JUNE 24. Two gold merchants of Narsannapeta in Srikakulam district were waylaid and killed on Wednesday night. The motive for the well-planned killings is said to be the money and ornaments they victims were carrying. The two merchants were identified as Gudla Chandra Gupta, 46, and Narayanasetty Ravindranath Tagore, 50.

According to the Kasibugga DSP, Sheikh Basha, the two merchants had been supplying gold ornaments to traders -- mainly of Parlakimidi in Orissa and areas like Patapatnam -- for many years. They used to go to the traders to hand over ornaments and collect money on Wednesdays on a two-wheeler. They had left Narsanapeta around 12.30 p.m. yesterday and reached Parlakimidi in two hours. They left Parlakimidi in the evening and contacted gold merchants at Patapatnam and the nearby Korasavada.

From there they called their families to inform that they would reach home for dinner. Mr. Basha said somewhere between Korasavada and Saravakota, the two merchants were waylaid, forced into a four-wheeler and strangled to death using a wire or nylon rope.

Worried relatives and traders of Narsannapeta searched for the two all night and sought the assistance of the Patapatnam police early in the morning. The bodies were found dumped near a stream at Tekkalipatnam.

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