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Lorry cleaner done to death

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: A lorry cleaner was beaten to death near Madhura Nagar gate in the early hours of Tuesday.

Machavaram police said that Bandari Raghu Babu (40), a lorry cleaner from Hanuman Nagar, went for a party along with his friends on Monday night and did not return. His family tried in vain to find him.

On Tuesday morning, they found his body lying in a pool of blood near Madhura Nagar gate and informed the police. In a complaint lodged with the police, Raghu Babu's father Venkateswara Rao accused Pavan, a friend of Raghu Babu, of killing his son.

The victim had sustained head injuries indicating involvement of three persons in the crime, the police said.

In ACB net

Sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday caught Appikatla Durga Nagendra Prasad (42) on the charge of extorting Rs. 25,000 from a city-based neurologist pretending to be an ACB official.

The sleuths handed him over to the Machavaram police. Prasad, a resident of Gurunanak colony, is said to have approached Dr. Siva Ramakrishna, and demanded Rs. 50,000 from him. The doctor paid Rs. 25,000 but grew suspicious and informed ACB officials.

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