BHU campus hit job foiled: Ex-dept head hires hitman to kill successor; professor battered but alive, ‘mastermind' on the run
Banaras Hindu University
(BHU) allegedly hatched a revenge plot, hiring a contract killer to "silence" his successor. Iron rods swung in the dark, leaving Prof Challa Sriramachandra Murthy battered but alive.
The "mastermind" is on the run.
Telugu department head Murthy is recovering from fractures in both arms after surviving the campus hit job on July 28, allegedly orchestrated by his predecessor Budati Venkatesh Lu. According to Varanasi police, the alleged plot began after Lu lost the department's headship following a complaint from Murthy.
The conspiracy surfaced after Tuesday's arrest of alleged hitman Pramod Kumar alias Ganesh Pasi of Prayagraj - wounded in the leg during a shootout in Varanasi. Hours earlier, police had nabbed Bhutpur Bhaskar from Telangana - a former research scholar accused of arranging the attackers. Another alleged accomplice, Vedant Bhushan Mishra of Jaunpur, was held earlier.
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