Income Tax officials have begun digging into the financial and land transactions of the slain faction leader Maddelacheruvu Suri and his suspected killer Bhanu Kiran. The Hyderabad central crime station officials have handed over the relevant documents to the IT sleuths who began their probe on the land transactions made by Bhanu some days prior to the day of Suri murder.

According to sources in the IT department, the scrutinizing officials have established that apart from Bhanu, Suri had also indulged in some shady deals of land transactions with some big names in the city prior to his murder. The persons with witch Bhanu and Suri had made transactions included top individuals in Tollywood and real estate field.

The sources said that both Bhanu and Suri had not kept anything in their names, thought it is said Bhanu Kiran and his associates had illegally acquired more than 100 properties. “We will be able to reveal the names involved in these fishy deals only after concluding the investigations,” the IT sources said.