India, Feb. 10 -- An argument over a property dispute led to a grisly murder in Hyderabad on Thursday. The US-returned grandson allegedly stabbed his 86-year-old industrialist grandfather to death in the latter's home following a dispute over property distribution. The victim is VC Janardan Rao, chairman and managing director of the Veljan Group, a Hyderabad-based manufacturing firm which deals in hydraulics equipment, shipbuilding, energy and more. The accused has been arrested.

On the night of February 6, the accused K Kirti Teja, who is in his late twenties (around 28), went to meet his maternal grandfather VC Janardan Rao along with his mother at his residence in Hyderabad's Somajiguda area. Teja had recently returned from the US aft...