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Sexagenarian decapitated, head taken away

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Unidentified persons beheaded a 62-year-old man, Manda Yadi Reddy, and took away his head at HMT Pipeline road in Jeedimetla on Tuesday evening.

Hailing from Warangal, Reddy was living in a rented house at Boduppal. He came to his younger brother Narsi Reddy’s house at Sanjaypuri colony in Jagadgirigutta to attend a family function.

He and Narsi Reddy’s family members went to perform ‘Yellamma puja’ at a secluded place in the semi-forest area abutting HMT pipeline road around noon. After completion of the religious ritual, other family members returned home while Yadi Reddy stayed back to ensure the ‘diya’ before the deity did not blow out.

Yadi Reddy was alive when Narsi Reddy’s two sons came over there around 4.45 p.m. to find out if he needed anything, the Jeedimetla Inspector, A. Gangaram, told reporters. But the sexagenarian was missing when they came there two hours later.

Worried over his disappearance, they alerted their father and started searching the area when they found his trunk in the bushes, some 100 yards away from the place where the puja was performed in the morning.

“The killers cut off his head and apparently took it away. Motive behind the killing is not yet known,” the police said. Searches were on for the victim’s head when reports last came in.

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