BHU professor hires hitman to kill his successor

Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday said the attack on the head of Banaras Hindu University’s Telugu department last month had been allegedly orchestrated by a professor from the same department, according to the Hindustan Times.

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The main accused, Ganesh Pasi, a contract killer from Prayagraj, was arrested from the Lanka area of Varanasi, news agency PTI quoted a cop. A country-made pistol was also recovered from him.

Pasi, after conducting a recce with two other criminals, attacked BHU’s Prof. CS Ramachandra Murthy on a campus road last month, leaving him with fractures in both arms. Iron rods were reportedly used in the assault, leaving Prof. Murthy battered but alive.

DCP (Crime) T Sarvan said, “On the instructions of BHU Telugu department professor Budati Venkateswarlu, a former research scholar had conspired with Pasi to carry out the assault."