HYDERABAD: A ragpicker has been arrested for murders of two homeless men sleeping on footpaths in two different spots near Nampally on Sunday night.
The two victims were not known to the accused, who was drunk and killed both with a boulder, police said. Cops cracked the case after verifying CCTV footage and picked the accused from Habeeb Nagar.
Nampally police said that around 11.30pm on Sunday, the accused, Khadeer, came across his first victim sleeping near a religious place in Nampally, picked a boulder and smashed it on him. He was then seen sitting on the footpath for a while before moving to another lane which comes under Habeeb Nagar police station limits. At around 3.30 am, he killed his second victim sleeping on the footpath in a similar fashion, cops said.
“The accused is not known to the victims. It appears he killed them for no reason,” a Nampally cop said, adding that the man was aged about 40 and was abandoned by family 20 years ago. Police are yet to identify the victims, who too seemed to be rag pickers aged around 40.
