Telangana businessman Maruthi Rao suicide on March 8 created another sensation, where he was main accused of plotting to murder his Dalit son-in-law Pranay. Meanwhile, forensic doctors have revealed that postmortem report. As per the reports, Miryalaguda based businessman Maruthi Rao died out of poison which was filled in his food. The officials added that poisonous food stopped the blood circulation in the body and also resulted in brain-dead and cardiac arrest.
Speaking about Maruthi Rao’s death, he was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a room at Arya Vysya Bhavan in Khairatabad. He had checked into the room on Saturday night and is suspected to have consumed poison. The guest house staff noticed the man lying unconscious on Sunday morning and alerted the police.Later, the body was shifted to government-run Osmania hospital for autopsy investigation. Rao, who belongs to an upper caste, had got his son-in-law Perumalla Pranay Kumar murdered by hired killers as he was against the marriage of his daughter with a Dalit.
The 24-year-old man was hacked to death by hired killer Subash Sharma in full public view when he along with his wife Amrutha and mother were coming out of a private hospital in Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district on September 14, 2018. Amrutha was then pregnant. The sensational murder was caught on CCTV camera. In June last year, the police had filed a charge sheet against Rao, and seven others. He had struck the deal to kill Pranay for Rs 1 crore. The accused include Asghar Ali who was acquitted of terror charges, his associate Mohammad Abdul Bari and Subash Sharma, the hired assassin from Bihar, Maruthi Rao’s brother Sravan Kumar and his driver, Samudrala Shiva.
