NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed over the probe into the 2021 Telangana lawyer couple’s murder to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A bench of Justices M. M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh pronounced the orders, transferring the case to the Central agency, saying the matter requires further investigation.
The apex court was hearing a plea filed by Gattu Kishan Rao seeking a CBI inquiry into the murder of his son, Gattu Vaman Rao and daughter-in-law, P. V. Nagamani.
During the hearing, the Telangana government had conveyed to the Supreme Court that it has no objection to handing over the case to the CBI.
The CBI had also told the Supreme Court that it is ready to probe the murder if directed by the court.
The couple, both practising lawyers in the high court, were brutally murdered in broad daylight in Peddapalli district of Telangana on February 17, 2021, while returning to Hyderabad from a court in Manthani.
Two assailants intercepted their car and attacked them using knives and other weapons on Manthani-Peddapalli road near a village in Ramagiri Mandal.