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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Staff Reporter
Three years after her `killing', Kumari seemed to have found it very difficult to prove that she was very much alive. When she tried to make such claim at a press conference, arranged by the Human Rights Forum district convener, A Rajendraprasad, at Chintalapudi, the probing journalists refused to take the girl by her word. Instead, she was asked to produce the proof in support of her claim. In a bid to prove herself alive, she presented herself at her native village situated 10 km from Chintalapudi. Scores of men and women and her friends watched her in awe as she walked up to her house through the main streets. However, Kumari's appearance was neither an exciting news nor a surprise to her father, Chandraiah, and mother, Durgamma, as the story of her death was weaved by the police without paying any heed to their claims. According to the charge-sheet framed by the then Inspector of Police, Chintalapudi Circle, B Krishna Mohan, Chandraiah lodged a complaint with the T. Narasapur police in June, 2000. that her daughter was found missing, suspecting the involvement of three village youths, K Suryachari, N. Rambabu and R Vemulaiah, in his daughter's abduction. The girl left her house on intervening night of May 31, 2000, for a street-play at Anjaneya Swamy temple in the village as part of temple festivals and did not return home till then. A case of missing was registered in the police station. However, the charge-sheet, after a thorough `investigation' by the police, concluded that the girl was done to death by her brother, Satyanarayana, her paternal uncle, Yadala Sitaiah. It presumed that the girl's "love-affair" with one of the accused persons, Suryachari, was the cause for the `murder'. The investigating officer detailed that the inquiries by the police revealed that Satyanarayana and Sitaiah bet her to death in the varandah of their thatched hut in the dead of the night and took the `body' to a cashew orchard owned by the Kumari's father and `cremated' it. In a bid to suppress evidences, the `accused' collected the ashes and threw them in the nearby pond. Interestingly, the police took `confession' statement from Satyanarayana and Sitaiah and framed the charge-sheet `as per the confession statement'. Arrested by the police, Satyanarayana and Sitaiah had served in the Rajaymundry Central jail for a couple of months and secured release on a bail recently. Talking to the reporters, the girl recalled that she was whisked away by the three accused as stated by her father in his complaint and taken to Jangareddygudem. However, she gave them the slip at Jangareddygudem bus stand and reached Rajahmundry where she got an admission in Telugu Bala Mahila Pranganam with the help of a woman teacher. She had not ventured into the village since then fearing her parents, she said. Chandraiah had his own cup of woes in his pursuit of tracing his daughter. He could not reach the police directly bypassing local satraps. He had to dispose half acre of his land to pay a hefty amount of Rs 17,000 to them for retrieval of his daughter. Later, Chandraiah, showing his fractured hand, said he had been taken to Jeelugumilli police station and tortured to confess that his daughter was killed by his son and brother.
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