Date:14/07/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071461071000.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Man urges police to trace son

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A Visakhapatnam Port Trust employee, A. Ramu, on Friday urged the police to trace his son, A. Aravinda Babu, who disappeared an year ago allegedly after he was ragged in his medical college hostel at Mangalagiri in Guntur.

Addressing a press conference here, he accused the police of not taking the case seriously. He said Babu joined the M.B.B.S. course in NRI Academy of Science in Mangalagiri in 2005.

On Febryary 26, 2006, he received a call from Babu’s roommate that the boy was missing.

“On reaching the college, I learnt that my son was ragged by hostel inmates and beaten up on the charge of stealing a mobile phone,” Mr. Ramu alleged, adding that some students were behind this. The college management had tried to suppress the facts, he charged.

The Port Trust employee said he moved the High Court since the Mangalagiri police failed to locate his son.

HC directive

The High Court directed the CID to investigate the case. “But the CID too failed to track him down. I appeal to the Government to form special teams to investigate,” he said.

State Human Rights Council secretary M. Shyam Prasad said a representation was given to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.