Police are mulling invoking Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the IPC in the murder case of dermatologist S. Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister S. Jaipal Reddy.
Investigators suspect that Kiran Reddy's husband, S. Chaitanya Reddy, who was arrested on Wednesday, had cleaned the bedroom after smothering her to death in the house. “It appears he had re-arranged and set everything in place in the bedroom after Kiran died and wiped out stains or marks,” the police said. This act attracts Section 201 of the IPC. Meanwhile, police said the officials of the U.S. Consulate office in Hyderabad had inquired about Chaitanya Reddy, a U.S. citizen, on Wednesday.
The police told them that he was arrested on the charge of murdering his wife and suggested them to meet him in the prison after securing permission of the court or prison authorities.
The doctors at Osmania General Hospital, where Chaitanya Reddy was admitted after he complained to the magistrate that police tortured him, declined to divulge details of the treatment extended to him. “We cannot share the details of injuries suffered by him or the treatment since he is in judicial custody,” they said.
