NRI businessman found dead in AP

A 55-year old NRI businessman was found dead in a parked car under mysterious circumstances on a highway in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, police said Friday.

US-based Chigurupati Jayaram, on a business visit to the state, was found dead with head injuries in his car parked at the roadside at Itavaram village, about 80 km from here, by a police patrol on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada national highway.

A Non-Resident Indian from the state, he was the Director of private Coastal Bank and also owned a pharmaceutical company in Andhra Pradesh.

District Superintendent of Police Sarvasresth Tripathy said Jayaram was travelling to Vijayawada from Hyderabad and a search was on for the missing driver of the car.

The body had been sent to a government hospital for post-mortem and further investigation was on, he said.

The family of the businessman had been informed about the death, the SP, who visited the spot, said.