Guntur: In a shocking incident, a mother was crushed under a lorry when she resisted the attempts by drunk men to sexually abuse her daughter at Tenali on Monday night. The 40-year-old woman, who was injured grievously, died a few hours later while undergoing treatment.
All accused are Congress activists and two of them are said to be relatives of former municipal chairman V Ramachandra Rao, . Guntur district police have arrested all the accused.
According to information, Bethala Sunila went to the market along with her daughter, an engineering student, on Monday evening. They were returning home at around 9pm when a group of drunk men came out of a bar at Gandhi Chowk centre and picked up an argument with the girl. When the girl objected to their behavior, one of them reportedly made an attempt to sexually abuse her. The others also took advantage of the darkness in the area to harass the two women.
Sunila took on the assailants and pushed them before trying to run away. Enraged over her resistance, the accused grabbed her and pushed her on to the street where a lorry ran over her. With the daughter shouting for help, the accused fled the scene. Locals rushed to the spot, alerted the police and shifted Sunila to a hospital in Mangalagiri where she died.
The girl lodged a complaint with the police, who found that the bar from where the accused came was owned by former municipal chairman Ramanchandra Rao. It is alleged that Rao’s son Nagaraju was present when the incident took place. He was also taken into custody late in the night.
As per Guntur SP (rural) J Satyanarayana’s instructions, Tenali police formed special teams and picked up the accused. “We have arrested all the accused, ” the SP told TOI and named them as Garapati Vinod Kumar, Maddali Kasi, Mopidevi Ramu, Samudrala Anil Kumar, Shaik Jaffer. Moka Subramanyam and Dasari Pratap Kumar. A case under IPC section 302 (murder) has been registered.
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