Naveen Kumar

For 63 hours, the answers to six murders in a quiet farming village near Hyderabad lay with a man who had simply disappeared. His phone was on airplane mode. Surveillance cameras captured him stepping onto railway tracks as a train approached, only for him to step away at the last moment. A bus ticket to L.B. Nagar in the capital and ₹1,206 in cash was later found on him. Three days later, his body was discovered 20 km from home beside a bottle of herbicide.

Petrol price touched ₹110.90 at the Hindustan Petroleum fuel station in Hyderabad on Friday, May 15, 2026, after oil-marketing companies increased the price by ̥3 across all variants. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The numbers on petrol station displays were revised on Friday (May 15, 2026), and with them rose a sense of unease among Hyderabad’s commuters.

Mohd. Wahed barely slept on the night of November 2. The 32-year-old poultry transporter kept staring at the strings of balloons, candles and platters set out for 100-odd guests in his modest Kishanbagh home in Hyderabad, imagining the moment he would finally hold his 40-day-old daughter for the first time. By dawn, his wait was almost over: his wife Saleha Begum (20), her father Mohd.