Overview

• A reconciliation meeting over a marital dispute in Suglampalli village of Sultanabad mandal escalated into a knife attack that killed two men, Mallesh and Ganesh, and left three others injured.
• Participants at the panchayat gathering allege that relatives of the woman had hired a gang of assailants who fled the scene after the violence.
• Telangana police have launched a criminal investigation into the Suglampalli clash, focusing on whether hired attackers were involved.
• In Medak district, local Congress leader Marelli Anil was initially believed to have died in a road accident before a postmortem revealed two bullet wounds in his abdomen.
• Authorities are conducting a forensic inquiry to determine if Marelli Anil’s death was a homicide or suicide.