The third name: The toddy tree climber, Muthyalu.
That night, Varma didn’t raid the Reddys. He went to Muthyalu, the toddy climber—a frail, terrified old man with shaking hands. Varma sat next to him on the parched earth and said, “Muthyalu garu, you climb the tree every morning. You saw who tied the rope.” murder telugu movie real story
The old man pointed a gnarled finger toward the police station. The third name: The toddy tree climber, Muthyalu
“Then who?” Varma whispered.
At dawn, Varma arrested Sub-Inspector Venkata Rao. Under pressure, Rao confessed: Sashi had threatened to expose the smuggling ring. Rao had called him to the tree under the guise of a “settlement.” With the help of the Sarpanch’s son and two constables, they had strangled the boy and made it look like a suicide. Varma sat next to him on the parched
Muthyalu wept. “They said they’d kill my grandson, sir. Biksham didn’t do it. Biksham was the decoy.”
The prime suspect was Nalla Biksham, the Reddys’ muscleman. But Biksham had an ironclad alibi: he was at a temple festival five villages away, captured on a grainy CCTV eating a jilebi .