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Was Paritala's murder known beforehand?

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, JAN. 25. Was somebody in Hyderabad eagerly waiting to learn the news of Paritala Ravindra's killing in Anantapur even before the lethal attack? Maybe, yes, if some incidents are looked into.

Several persons in the town, including a few newspersons, are learnt to have received calls from news agencies and others from Hyderabad at noon asking whether an important TDP leader in the district had been killed as there were such rumours in Hyderabad.

However, such calls were brushed aside by those who had received them stating that there was no information of any such incident anywhere in the district. But, they might have hardly known that the calls were going to be realised within a span of an hour or two.

Meticulous planning

Such incidents clearly indicate that there was a meticulous planning behind the murder, keeping a close watch on the movements of Ravindra in the party office since he reached there around 11.30 in the morning.

The assailants appear to have taken all care not to target any media person as had happened in the Jubilee Hills car bomb blast case as the attack had taken place minutes after the media representatives left the TDP office.

As there was no checking nor any control on the persons coming inside the party office for the executive meeting the assailants might have sneaked in either before Ravindra's arrival or after and had kept a close watch.

Though Ravindra did not speak at the meeting, he was busy discussing the zilla parishad issue with legal experts, local leaders as well as State party representatives. He was surrounded either by newspersons or by party men all the time till he came out of the office to go to his house. As he came out of the office two assailants were learnt to have come from inside the office and two from outside and carried out their plan. They had also succeeded in escaping the spot easily by hurling bombs while fleeing. As Ravindra had no perceived threat from the Maoists, the suspicion turns only either to his political rivals or the organisations like Jana Rakshana Samithi, allegedly formed and funded by his rivals.

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