Andhra Pradesh - Vijayawada   

Mylavaram rape case: two constables, trader held

VIJAYAWADA: The city police arrested two constables working in the Mylavaram police station and a businessman from the same town on the charge of raping a 28-year-old woman and threatening her with dire consequences in a private lodge at Mylavaram on March 18.

The arrested were: constables Aalla Venkata Rao, 41, and Panuganti Prasad, 37, and Sheik Mastan Vali alias Munna, 29, a bakery owner in Mylavaram.

This was stated at a press conference addressed by Police Commissioner K.V. Rajendranath Reddy on Saturday. The Commissioner said two more accused persons – Krishna Kishore, a close relative of the victim, and Venkata Narayana, a seeds trader of Mylavaram – were absconding and the police were on the lookout for them.

The two constables and the businessman were arrested on Friday and produced in the court, he said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Meet on self-employment
Mylavaram rape case: two constables, trader held
Co-opted as ACA vice-presidents
‘No group politics in ACA’
Varun Sandesh makes an appearance in the city
A sure ticket to global success
BPS: State urged to bring down penal charges
VMC move irks ‘life’ members of stadium
Police set up helpline for women
Rotary clubs’ presidents to be installed today
Urdu teachers felicitated
Modernise Budameru to save crops: Ponnala
Slogan writing winners given away awards
Vijayawada today

Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu