Banoth Ravi, a municipal councilor axed to death [ Telangana, India]

[Reported as seen]

Banoth Ravi, 35, A municipal councilor of Mahabubabad civic body was axed to death by miscreants in broad daylight in the district headquarters town of Mahabubabad on 21st April 2022.

The victim was the eighth ward councilor of Mahabubabad municipality. Ravi got elected as a councilor from the eighth ward as an independent candidate in the last civic body polls and reportedly joined the ruling TRS subsequently, sources said.

Ravi, who was heading towards Pattipaka on his bike, was waylaid by the assailants, who attacked him with axes before fleeing in full public view, sources said. A tractor and a car were used by the assailants in the crime, sources added.

The police have ruled out any political angle in the murder.

A preliminary inquiry has pointed to the possibility of an old rivalry over some business transactions between the deceased and the assailants being the motive behind the ghastly murder.

The horrific killing of the elected representative of the urban local body sent shockwaves in the district headquarters town.