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Moddu Srinu acquitted in pan shop owner’s murder case

Staff Reporter

Second murder case in which he was cleared of charge

In 2007, he was acquitted in the kidnap and murder case of a car driver
Conspiracy charge struck off following prosecution’s failure to present evidence

HYDERABAD: Julakanti Srinivas Reddy alias Moddu Srinu, whose name figured in several murder cases, on Wednesday was acquitted of the charge in the murder case of pan shop owner Ramakrishna in the city, on Wednesday.

This is the second murder case in city in which Srinu was cleared of the charge. Last year, he was acquitted in the kidnap and murder case of a car driver registered by the Chikkadpally police. In the latest case, three more accused - Patolla Goverdhan Reddy of Revolutionary Patriotic Tigers and M. Anjaih - who were charged with conspiring to kill Ramakrishna and Tirupati Balanna, were also acquitted. The court struck off the conspiracy charge since the prosecution failed to present substantiating evidence. Twenty-eight 28 witnesses were produced in the case. Two eyewitnesses presented by the police told the court that the same accused, who attacked Ramakrishna with knives earlier, had gunned him down on August 16, 2004, while he was in his pan shop. As the persons arrested in the attack case were different, the court could not take their statement into consideration, the defence advocate Nayan Kumar told The Hindu. Srinu and Balanan were acquitted on benefit of doubt.

Hailing from Challagonda village in Guntur district, Sreenu was accused of involvement in many murder cases including that of Telugu Desam MLA Paritala Ravindra.

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