Andhra Pradesh police on Sunday claimed to have solved the alleged murder of three passengers brutally murdered in a Chennai-bound APSRTC bus last month after the arrest of a person.
An unidentified assailant allegedly stabbed to death three passengers and injured another seriously near Tada in Nellore district while they were sleeping in a Chennai-bound state-owned APSRTC bus in the wee hours of July 26.
The accused identified as D. Srinivas Rao alias Sreenu (33) was arrested at Vijayawada on Saturday, Nellore district Superintendent of Police (SP) B.V. Ramana Kumar said.
Srinivas Rao, a jilted lover, was jailed on charges of allegedly teasing a girl in the year 2010 by Manubolu police in Nellore district. Later, he came out on bail and decided to take revenge on the Manubolu police station sub-inspector who had probed the eve-teasing case.
The accused learnt two months ago that the sub-inspector who investigated his case worked at the Tada police station in Nellore district. He even sent a SMS to the sub-inspector on June 16 stating that 'I won't leave you', the SP said.
Srinivas Rao, who worked at a Vijayawada medical shop, boarded a Bhadrachalam-Chennai bus at Ongole on August 25 night to go to Tada, he said.
After a petty quarrel, he first stabbed a passenger at about 3.45 am and later attacked three others with a sharp knife. He fled the scene, when the bus driver stopped after hearing passengers screaming, he said.