HYDERABAD, India, 9 January 2007 — The police yesterday announced the arrests of three suspects in the murder of nine persons, including two women, on the outskirts of Hyderabad in a span of one year. The fourth accused is absconding.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner S. Prabhakar Reddy told a media conference yesterday evening that “the accused are migrant laborers and, being pathetic addicts to liquor, had committed these murders by smashing the heads of the victims with boulders” all for paltry amounts “to quench their thirst for liquor.”
To repeated queries from newsmen, the commissioner asserted that “as of now, that (sodomy) aspect has not come to our notice. Our investigation so far did not reveal anything about homosexuality. Only in the case of a woman, they raped and killed her. In the other cases, we have not come across sexual abuse angle.”
Asked if any psychopathic tendencies were noticed among the accused, the commissioner said, “They are just normal. No abnormality is noticed in their behavior. If further investigations reveal anything more, we will tell you.”
