TDP leader takes out rally against police

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, AUG. 28. The Telugu Desam Party State general secretary and Kamalapur legislator, Mr. M. Damodar Reddy, took out a rally from Jammikunta mandal headquarters to Karimnagar town today in protest against alleged police harassment of a former Mandal Parishad president.

Mr. Damodar Reddy took out the rally with his supporters in a number of vehicles. As soon as the police got information that TDP supporters were likely to besiege the town with vehicles, they deployed additional forces at Alugunuru village and obstructed the procession at the village crossroads on the Karimnagar outskirts.

Talking to newsmen at his residence, the TDP leader alleged that some plainclothes police personnel went to the residence of the former mandal president, Mr. Ramaswamy, in Mogilakunta village of Jammikunta mandal on Monday night and asked him to accompany them as the Additional SP (OSD), Mr. Madhusudhan Reddy, had summoned him. He charged that the police had not disclosed the reason for this. When Mr. Ramaswamy resisted their attempts, they pounced on him and dragged him into a jeep without number plate.

Mr. Ramaswamy jumped out of the vehicle but the police dumped him into the jeep, he said, alleging that the police did not heed to the pleas of his wife and son as to why he was being arrested. Meanwhile, villagers assembled and ensured that Mr. Ramaswamy was not arrested.

The TDP leader said the Godavarikhani police had arrested another TDP leader, Mr. Rajaiah, husband of Shankarpatnam TDP ZPTC defeated candidate Ms. Saroja, on Monday night and so far his whereabouts had not been disclosed.

He said that the matter would be referred to the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, and the Home Minister, Mr. T. Devender Goud.

However, the Superintendent of Police, Dr. R.S. Praveen Kumar, said the police had not manhandled Mr. Ramaswamy. The police had gone to the village only to enquire about a missing tractor which was suspected to be with extremists.

He said the former mandal chief had filed a case with the Jammikunta police that his tractor was missing.

The police, on specific information that naxalites had taken away the tractor from Mr. Ramaswamy to attack police stations in the district, went to his residence only to enquire about the whereabouts of his driver. But Mr. Ramaswamy refused to cooperate with the police, he alleged.

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