hyderabad uppal police on friday arrested seven persons in connection with murder of a 22yearold private employee the victim mogili machagiri alias prasad a resident of kcr nagar in ramanthapur was killed by his rivals at srinagar colony in ramanthapur on june 2 based on a complaint by prasads father yadagiri uppal police registered a murder caseafter analysing cctv footages police identified the accused the arrested accused are b nagaraju 28 a car driver his associates k ramesh 23 a car driver ch omkar 23 a private employee ch ramu 27 a cctv technician k rajinikanth 24 a private employee g raju 25 a centring worker and p sunil kumar 29 a private employee three more accused md mustaq sai and santhosh of ramanthapur are abscondingduring probe police found out that in september 2018 prasad and his friends were arrested for stealing a phone and amplifier from a ganesh pandal at venkata sai nagar suspecting that nagaraju and mustaq might have told police about his involvement in the theft prasad bore a grudge against them in january 2019 nagaraju and ramesh trespassed into prasads house in his absence and damaged window glasses subsequently prasad threatened nagaraju over the phone and also started harassing nagarajus girlfriend nagaraju decided to eliminate prasad and sought help from other accused on june 2 the accused asked prasad to meet them and killed him by attacking on his head with stone and sticks uppal inspector p venkateshwarulu saidaccording to police nagaraju and mustaq have criminal record they were earlier arrested in attempt to murder case