Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader and Nalgonda municipal chairperson Boddu Lakshmi’s husband Boddupally Srinivas was bludgeoned to death by unidentified persons in Nalgonda town on Wednesday night. His body was found in a canal near his house.

Ward councillor Merugu Kausalya’s Gopi told Srinivas that a few drunks were troubling and abusing him and sought help. As Gopi was close to Srinivas, he rushed to the spot nearby on his bike, instead of taking a car.





But when he reached the spot, he could not find Gopi, but there were others heavily drunk. He tried to pacify them. But the gang in a fit of rage was said to have attacked him with boulders. He died on the spot and dumped his body in the canal.

Meanwhile, when Lakshmi called her husband, somebody else answered the call, but did not speak properly. A worried Ms Lakshmi rushed to the police station. Police went to the spot and found Srinivas lying dead in a pool of blood in the canal.

Lakshmi demanded a fair inquiry and immediate arrest of persons involved in the murder. Nalgonda superintendent of police D.V. Srinivas Rao said investigations were on.