A delegation of political parties and social organisations on Friday met Director-General of Police Anurag Sharma, seeking action against police officials involved in the alleged torture of people of Nerella village in Sircilla district. The delegation also sought registration of cases under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act against Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet.
The delegation, including of TPCC Working President, Bhatti Vikramarka, Telangana TDP working president A. Revanth Reddy, and CPI leader Chada Venkat Reddy, said the police had tortured people using third degree methods after picking them for burning a sand lorry.
They said the people had allegedly torched a sand lorry after it had run over B. Bhudaiah. The lorry belonged to a sand contractor who had been extracting and transporting sand from a river with hundreds of lorries on a daily basis in Siricilla district, they said.
The local police who had not acted on the complaints of villagers regarding innumerable deaths caused by speeding lorries, had picked up eight innocent persons — Penta Banaiah, Gandham Gopal, Chepyala Balaraju, Kola Harish, Pasula Eashwar Kumar, Cheekoti Srinivas, Kolukanti Ganesh and Bathula Mahesh — from their houses in the middle of the night.
The delegation said the SP and his staff had subjected them to severe third degree torture — beating them indiscriminately, pouring hot water on their private parts, giving electric shocks and administering sedatives continuously for four days. The police had also threatened the victims not to reveal the torture or else they would book their family members, showing them as sex workers and drug peddlers, the delegation said.
