Pranay Murder Case Accused Maruthi Rao Commits Suicide

The brutal murder of Pranay for loving an upper-caste girl Amrutha by her father T. Maruthi Rao took the whole state by storm in 2018. Here comes the most shocking news, Maruthi Rao has now committed suicide in Arya Vysya Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. Rao’s wife complained to the police and a case of suspicious death has been registered. The body has been shifted to the mortuary for postmortem.

According to the police, Maruthi Rao came to Hyderabad on Saturday from his native place Miryalaguda and was staying at Arya Vysya Bhavan. On Saturday night, he bolted the doors from inside and hanged himself to death. When the housekeeping staff knocked on the door for cleaning the room, there was no response.

The staff watched the body hanging from the ceiling through the window and informed the manager of the Bhavan who alerted the police. In 2018, Maruthi Rao's daughter Amrutha married her boyfriend Pranay, who belonged to the Dalit community against her parents’ interest. When Amrutha was pregnant and the couple went to the hospital, Pranay was hacked to death by some people.

In this case, Maruthi Rao was the prime accused of hiring the people who killed Pranay. Police had arrested Rao along with Mohammed Asghar Ali and Mohammed Abdul Bari. However, Maruthi Rao was detained under the PD Act and he was released from jail a few months back. An unknown body of a male person was found at the car shed of Maruthi Rao in Miryalaguda, a week back. While the case is under investigation, Maruthi Rao committed suicide.