Ravi Teja’s brother killed in road accident

Tollywood star Ravi Teja lost his younger brother, Bharath, to a road accident on the city’s Outer Ring Road on Saturday night.
The actor, 46, was reportedly driving his sedan at nearly 140kmph and rammed it into a stationary lorry at Kotwalguda in Shamshabad mandal at around 11pm. Whether it was a case of drunk driving is yet to be ascertained.
Bharath was on his way to Gachibowli from

Novotel

Hotel and had last spoken to his advocate-friend at 9.30 pm. Shamshabad police informed he had suffered severe head injuries, besides sustaining fractures on his left leg and right hand, leading to spot death. The car’s bonnet was mangled, both air bags destroyed and the steering wheel broken.
The actor’s body was taken to the

Osmania General Hospital

for post mortem. The police could establish his identity only at 6 am on Sunday.
Bharath had acted in quite a few Telugu films including Okkade,

Athade Oka Sainyam

,

Peddababau

,

Ready

, 143 and Dochay.