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Ayesha murder case: “uncle’s hand suspected”

Special Correspondent

Handwriting experts fail to come to a conclusion
CBI is “Congress Bureau of Investigation”

HYDERABAD: The needle of suspicion in the rape and murder of a pharmacy student Ayesha Meera, in a hostel near Vijayawada pointed to her uncle, Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy stated in the Assembly on Friday.

A handwritten letter was found at the scene of offence which was suspected to have been written by her uncle. However, handwriting experts held different opinions and could not come to a conclusion if the letter was written by her uncle.

Dr. Reddy said he had requested the Centre to entrust the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to pre-empt political pressure on the police. But, quite inexplicably, Ayesha’s mother said she did not want a CBI probe as she still had trust in the Vijayawada Police Commissioner C. V. Anand.

The Chief Minister was intervening in the debate on the Governor’s address after Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu questioned the propriety of Dr. Reddy keeping mum in the gruesome murder of the girl in a well-secured hostel.

He wondered why the police had not interrogated the hotel warden and her husband.

He criticised the Chief Minister for asking the Ayesha’s mother to withdraw the case and offering ex gratia. Dr. Reddy lashed out strongly against Mr. Naidu when he accused him of asking Ayesha’s mother to withdraw the case in exchange for money.

Roja’s role

Referring to how Telugu Mahila president Roja was taking Ayesha’s mother to different places, he appealed to Mr. Naidu not to politicise at least human problems.

In the ensuing spat, Mr. Naidu retorted that the CBI had turned into a “Congress Bureau of Investigation” under the UPA regime, citing how it “drew a blank” in Paritala Ravi’s murder and in the Outer Ring Road case.

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