Tahsildar was murdered by an unidentified man in Kommadi, a suburb of Visakhapatnam, police said on Saturday.
Ramanaiah, a tahsildar, was attacked by the assailant with iron rods on Friday night in the cellar of an apartment complex.
According to police, the tahsildar, who was living in a rented flat, reached home from the office at around 8 p.m. He received a phone call around 10.15 p.m. and he went to the cellar to meet a person.