Andhra Pradesh

State ignores Ayesha case: Naidu

Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

PATIENT HEARING: Ayesha’s mother with Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu at Sattenapalli in Guntur district on Wednesday. —

REDDYGUDEM (GUNTUR DT.): The Ayesha Meera murder case has been ignored by the Congress Government and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy seems to have washed his hands off the case by handing it over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu, has alleged.

He proposes to address a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.

At a press conference here on Wednesday as part of his fourth day Mee Kosam programme in Guntur district, parents of Ayesha Meera, who was murdered in a hostel at Ibrahimpatnam near Vijayawada, met Mr. Naidu and handed over a letter, which they received on April 21 from an anonymous person, describing the sequence of events on that fateful day.

They alleged that the State government and the police did not handle the case properly, which, they said, forced them not to handover the letter to the police.

The Opposition leader assured them of sending the letter and the entire case report to the Prime Minister with a covering letter requesting him to do justice. Names of all the accused persons were written in that, he said.

Questioning the transfer of Vijayawada Police Commissioner C.V. Anand even before the case came to a close raises many a doubt, he said, and added that justice was not being done to minorities in the State even otherwise.

“We will see to it that Muslim minorities got 5 per cent reservation when we come to power,” he promised at all the meetings he addressed up to Piduguralla, in the district where he made a night halt.

The party’s Polit Bureau meeting would take place at Piduguralla on Thursday between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. to finalise the names of candidates for the 16 seats in Telangana, where by-elections would be held on May 29.

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