Three men from the town are in judicial custody till 1 September. The 7 August killing of a TDP activist is still a police case.

Kurnool police have put three names on a killing that is twelve days old. A court has put those three names in judicial custody until 1 September. Neither act is a conviction.

The dead man is Shaik Imtiyaz, a Telugu Desam Party activist. Police say he was killed in the early hours of 7 August 2026. That is the date and the hour-band on the public card. The card does not name a weapon. It does not describe how he was killed. It does not give a motive. This desk will not supply those silences. A killing without a method in the public file is still a killing. It is not a reconstructed crime scene.

The three men now in custody are Shaik Imran, Mohammad Jawad and S.M.D. Irfaz. Police say all three are from various parts of Kurnool town. Town is the geography they share. It is not, on these facts, a neighbourhood confession.

Two of them were nabbed near Pakki Masjid in Joharapuram, inside Kurnool town. From those two, police seized a mobile phone and a motorcycle. The third was arrested later, near the Indiramma Houses in Joharapuram. The same locality, a later hour, a separate pickup. Joharapuram is the only place-name this file repeats.

Police also said they seized a two-wheeler and three mobile phones from the accused. That is the inventory as police stated it. This desk will not add the first motorcycle to that second sentence and invent a fleet. It will not add the first phone to the three and invent a fourth. The public sentence is the police sentence: a two-wheeler and three phones.

The three were produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody until 1 September. Remand is a holding order. It keeps an accused in jail for a named period so the investigation can continue. It does not decide guilt. 1 September is the date the court wrote on the custody. It is not a trial date in these facts, and this desk will not turn it into one.

What the police have alleged is involvement in the killing. Involvement is a wide word. It can mean many things in a charge sheet that has not, in the facts held here, been read out. Until that paper is public, the only safe verbs are the ones already used: arrested, seized, produced, remanded.

What this desk will not do is write a last conversation, a quarrel, a political score, or a street-by-street chase that nobody in these facts has described. Imtiyaz was a TDP activist. That identity is on the card. It is not a theory of the case. A party label on the dead man does not become a party case unless a charge sheet writes it that way.

The arrests were reported on 19 August 2026 from a Kurnool dateline. Twelve days after the early hours of 7 August. Three accused. One masjid-side pickup. One Indiramma Houses pickup. A two-wheeler. Three phones. Judicial custody until the first day of September.

A reader who wants a motive will have to wait for a paper that contains one. A reader who wants a weapon will have to wait for the same paper. This desk’s job on 19 August is narrower. It is to keep the three names, the two Joharapuram points, the seizure as police stated it, and the remand date, and to refuse the rest.

These are police allegations. They will remain allegations until a court says otherwise. Custody until 1 September is the only date that is firm. The killing in the early hours of 7 August is the only death that is firm. Between those two dates sit three arrests and a file that has not yet been tried.