Bhanu - The mastermind behind Suri

Bhanu Kiran, the prime accused in Maddelacheruvu Suri's murder, claims that he is the mastermind behind 'Brand Suri'.

According to the CID Officials, Suri has no direct invovement in any of the deals and settlements. It was Bhanu who used to take care of all these matters. If anyone approaches Suri seeking his help, he has the habit of assigning the task to his close aide Bhanu. Taking advantage of it, Bhanu used Suri's name for several settlements and amassed wealth. All this has been done without Suri's knowledge.

The entire police department breathed a sigh of relief after the most wanted criminal was arrested in Zaheerabad on Saturday. Few months back, the CID officials has missed him by a whisker in Nagpur when Bhanu vacated the hotel room just before the cops arrived at the spot. The call records confirm that Bhanu travelled all over the country, except Jammu-Kashmir and the North-East.

Why Bhanu was rushed to jail at Midnight?

Factionist Maddelacheruvu Suri's murderer Bhanu Kiran complained that there is threat to his life from the opponents (mainly Suri gang), after his arrest at Zaheerabad when he was on his way to Hyderabad from Mumbai. So, he was immediately produced before the magistrate after the press meet with media-persons. After taking orders from the magistrate, the CID officials had rushed him to the Cherlapally jail on Saturday midnight.

A special high-security block in Cherlapally jail has been allotted to Bhanu Kiran. Generally, around 20 inmates will share a single barrack. In November 2008, Moddu Seenu (the prime accused in Paritala Ravi murder case) was killed by his fellow prisoner Om Prakash in Anantapur prison. Taking this incident into account, a separate cell was given to Bhanu by the jail authorities.

Reports say, Suri's gang has pleadged to kill Bhanu. Their plans to catch Bhanu before the police could get him didn't work. As now Bhanu is in the prison, Suri's gang is using their past contacts with politicians and jail authorities to assassinate him.

Bhanu's first shock to CID Officials

Seems like, Bhanu Kiran is enjoying all the attention he has been getting after the murder of factionist Maddelacheruvu Suri. When the CID officials insisted him to wear a black cloth to cover his face to produce him before the media, Bhanu refused to do so.

Instead, he questioned the sleuths "Why do you want me to wear the mask? and What do you want to prove by doing so? Everyone knows me very well and there is nothing to hide". He also hinted that if he was produced before the media with a mask, the CID officials will land in trouble. "Media and the people might think that the cops have produced someone else in the name of Bhanu, to divert the some other issue or to close Suri's murder case file," he said.

Initially, the CID officials feared that producing Bhanu without covering his face might trigger violence in Anantapur district. Although the cops had planned to produce Bhanu before the media for just a few minutes, the pressure mounted by mediapersons has forced them to prolong it till the end of pressmeet. In fact, Bhanu's free advice about the mask has shocked the CID officials as they had never experienced such thing before.

Bhanu would have been dead by now: Suri's wife

Slain factionist Maddelacheruvu Suri's wife Gangula Bhanumathi stated that Bhanu Kiran would have been dead by now, if there is no one else to support him.

"I had been mounting a lot of pressure on CM and Home Minister to arrest Bhanu. Finally, my efforts have paid off. I'm very happy now. Someone might have given shelter to Bhanu, since my husband's death. Everyone fears even to talk with Suri or sit beside him. Even I'm not an exception. So, killing a person like Suri without anybody's help is not possible. If there is no one behind Bhanu, he would have been dead by now," Gangula Bhanumathi.

"Although Suri is aware of the fact that there is threat to his life from the opponents, he never doubted that his close associate Bhanu would kill him. Suri always treated Bhanu as his brother and trusted him more than anyone else. Bhanu is money minded and had done several settlements using the name of Suri," she added.

Bhanumathi refused to divulge the names of the people whom she is suspecting behind his husband's murder. She, however, hinted that Paritala Ravi family and few other TDP leaders helped Bhanu to accomplish the mission.