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Kamareddy killing: KTR puts up weak defence!

Kamareddy killing: KTR puts up weak defence!

The death of a village revenue assistant of Marthad village of Kamareddy district when he was allegedly mowed down a sand tractor has once again landed the Telangana Rasthra Samithi government in the most embarrassing situation once again.

However, the district officials, the police and the local TRS leaders, allegedly at the behest of IT minister and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K T Rama Rao, tried to hush up the case within hours and sought to project it as an accidental death caused by a tractor carrying bricks and not sand. He also said the deceased was a drunkard and not a VRA.

Interestingly, all the newspapers, including KCR’s mouthpiece Namasthe Telangana, published the reports saying it was gruesome murder and the person, who was engaged as a village assistant, had indeed tried to stop illegal transport of sand.

All the reporters who filed the story are from the same village and nobody knows the facts better than them.

Yet, KTR and the officials tried to put up a weak defence and hush up the matter. There were contradictory versions on the issue.

While KTR and other TRS leaders say the victim was sleeping on the road in an inebriated condition, police sub inspector contended that while Sailu was on his way to Khambapur in the night, a brick-laden lorry coming from the opposite direction hit him leading to his death.

He also admitted that sand lorries were also passing on the road, which led the villagers believe that the VRA was mowed down by a sand lorry.

Interestingly, even when the police managed to bring brick-tractor driver to confess the crime, another driver of a sand tractor also came there and admitted that he was responsible for the death. The police took both of them into a room and silenced the sand tractor driver.

On the second successive day, the media carried the reports with the versions of the villagers, revenue employees and the family members of the victim.

Nobody is able to explain why the police surrounded the village, did not allow any political party leader to enter the village and why the local TRS leaders offered to pay Rs 2.5 lakh to the family of the victim.

In any case, the incident brought yet another disgrace to the TRS government after the Nerella incident.

The party might hush up the matter for now, but the discontent among the people would definitely reflect in the elections!

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