In the worst ever faction fights in Rayalaseema, Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddlacheruvu Suri was shot dead at point blank range by his associate Bhanu Kiran, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Nampally court. Another prime accused, Manmohan Singh Bhaduria, a close aide of Bhanu, was however released from the jail as he has already served seven years. Stating that the sentence is not upto her satisfaction, Suri’s wife, Bhanumathi said that he should be hanged to death. She alleged that Paritala family has a role in the murder of Maddlacheruvu Suri.
Gangula Bhanumathi, the widow of Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddelacheruvu Suri Bhanumathi further alleged that Bhanu Kiran killed her husband only for money given to him by Paritala family. She might be approach High Court (HC) for a more severe sentence to the accused.
Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy was shot dead by his own follower Bhanu Kiran in Hyderabad on 3rd January 2011 in the city’s Yousufguda area. Later Bhanu, with the help of the other accused in the case, got on a motorbike and sped away. He was arrested in 2012 in Zaheerabad, now in Telangana. Along with Suri, the CID filed a charge sheet against six others. In the month of May this year, a local court in Hyderabad sentenced Bhanu Kiran and three others to one year of imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms.
Dozens of people were killed in the rivalry between the two families- the families of gangster-turned-politicians Paritala Ravindra and Maddelachervu Suri. Everything was started when Maddelacheruvu Suri’s father Gangula Narayana Reddy allegedly got his rival P Sriramulu killed. The latter’s son, Paritala Ravi, took revenge by eliminating Narayana Reddy, several of his aides and family members. Except one brother of Suri, who died in a road accident, all the other family members of the two warlords were murdered by rivals in the most brutal fashion.