There is no direct link between the robbery at Siddipet in February, the murder of a realtor by his cousin at Trimulgherry two months earlier and the twin murders near Ibrahimpatnam on Tuesday.
But all the three grave crimes involved usage of firearms. While the Rachakonda police are yet to ascertain with what type of firearms the accused shot dead real estate businessman Srinivas Reddy and his acquaintance Raghavender Reddy, the accused in the other two offences used country-made short firearms.
In the murder for gain reported at Trimulgherry in December last, the prime accused Narender Reddy secured two country-made pistols from Madhya Pradesh through a middleman for ₹ 30,000. Investigators said the accused even test fired the pistol in the dead of a night at a secluded place near Alwal tank.
