Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday made stunning revelations within the July assault on Banaras Hindu College’s (BHU) Telugu Division head, Prof. CS Ramachandra Murthy.
Police stated the assault was allegedly orchestrated by one other professor from the identical division. A key accused, recognized as contract killer Ganesh Pasi from Prayagraj, has been arrested. He was taken into custody from the Lanka space of Varanasi.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) T Sarvan stated that on the directions of BHU Telugu Division professor Budati Venkateswarlu, a former analysis scholar had conspired with Pasi to hold out the assault, reported information company PTI.
Pasi, after conducting a recce with two criminals, had Prof. CS Ramachandra Murthy brutally assaulted on a campus street final month. Murthy’s each arms had been damaged within the incident.
In response to media studies, Budati Venkateswarlu hatched the plot to hunt revenge after he misplaced the Telugu Division’s management following a grievance from Murthy.
The police stated they acquired info on Tuesday night time that the accused was in Lanka and making ready to flee.
When police surrounded the world, the accused opened hearth on them. Within the retaliatory firing, he was shot within the leg and arrested. A rustic-made pistol was recovered from Pasi’s possession.
Murthy is presently recovering from his accidents.
Venkateswarlu remains to be at massive, the police stated.
Outraged by the incident, greater than 300 academics and several other college students staged a protest close to the primary gate of the Banaras Hindu College in July.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ajay Rai had visited Murthy on the BHU Trauma Centre.
He condemned the assault and stated, “Academics are being attacked in a nationwide establishment like BHU, and governments are remaining silent spectators. We demand {that a} judicial inquiry be performed into this incident. The culprits ought to be arrested instantly, and the BHU administration ought to make clear why they’ve remained silent on this assault until now.”
