Jagtial: A BRS leader and the husband of a municipal councillor, Pogula Laxmirajam (45) was stabbed to death by unknown persons in Korutla town on Tuesday morning.
According to police, while Laxmirajam was having tea in a tea stall near the old municipal office at 9.30 am, two unknown persons attacked him with knives. He sustained severe injuries as the assailants attacked him on the neck.
Local people immediately shifted him to hospital.
As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to a hospital in Karimnagar where he breathed his last while undergoing treatment. Laxmirajam is the husband of ninth ward councillor Umarani.
BRS leaders staged protest condemning the objectionable comments made by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy against senior women BRS leaders P Sabitha Indra Reddy and V Sunitha Lakshma Reddy.
GHMC Commissioner Amrapali Kata said that action has been taken against the malls and multiplexes that are charging parking fees contrary to the rules within the GHMC.
Maidardevpally and CCS Rajendra Nagar teams proceeded and apprehended the four offenders at Sasthripuram at Sasthripuram namely 1. Aqeel, 2. Adnan, 3. Mohd Saif, 4. Moshin