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Mudigonda village limping back to normal

Staff Reporter

MUDIGONDA (Khammam dt): Mudigonda is limping back to normality. The village has become a hot spot in the State following the Saturday police firing that left seven persons killed. It received a steady stream of visitors for the past three days. The police and the judiciary furnished their own reports on the incident. What really culminated in the killings? Political parties and people are flaunting their own theories. But the fact commonly acknowledged in the village is that the police relations with the CPI (M) cadre were far from being cordial for quite a sometime.

Both Ramesh and his wife, Padma, sarpanch of Chirumari village were in the forefront of the land struggle. They are the main organisers of the bandh in the village. The Sub-Inspector visited the protest camp where the party men were on fast twice in the morning and asked them to give up the protest but they did not relent. The crowd at the protest camp was less than 300. According to the eye witnesses, a few constables in plain clothes came to the camp and sounded a word of caution to all those known to them and asked them to leave the place.

Around noon a 20 member special party reached the village along with the additional superintendent of police, M. Ramesh Babu. Armed with SLRs and AK 47s, 12 of them were entrusted with the protection of the police station while eight others stormed into the protest camp. Bandi Ramesh was dragged out of the tent and beaten up in the full view of the public. People who had nothing to do with the protest also gathered in a big way on the spot. Five of those killed in the police firing were just onlookers.

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