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Bangalore police take T. Prakash Reddy into custody in 1997 attack case

ANANTAPUR: A day before Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s whirlwind election tour of the district the Congress suffered a moral blow with the Bangalore city police arresting party candidate for Rapthadu Assembly constituency, T. Prakash Reddy, in connection with a 1997 attack and attempt to murder case, here on Sunday.

A Peenya police team led by Inspector Srinivas Reddy took away Mr. Reddy to Bangalore amid tight security. He was produced before First Fast Track Sessions Court Judge Savitri Vinayaka at her residence, who remanded him to judicial custody.

Arrest warrant

According to the district police, the Bangalore police team armed with a pending arrest warrant against Mr. Reddy arrived in the town on Sunday morning, met SP M.K. Singh and accompanied by local DSP B. Satyanarayana Rao, One Town CI K. Rajeswar Reddy and others went to the house of the candidate in the Housing Board Colony and arrested him.

The police said Mr. Prakash Reddy was one of the 10 persons accused in the assault and acid hurling case on one Krishnamurthy in connection with a land dispute in 1997. Krishnamurthy had filed a complaint with the Peenya police who had registered cases under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 307 (attempt to murder), 109 (abetment), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and Section 149 of the IPC.

Though others in the case were arrested by the police long ago, the Bangalore police failed to arrest Mr. Prakash Reddy as he was ‘not traceable’. A fast track court in Bangalore had declared him ‘proclaimed offender’ a few years ago.

The Bangalore police were forced to act now on the directions of the Election Commission to execute all pending arrest warrants.

Allegation

Meanwhile, family sources of Mr. Prakash Reddy alleged that his TDP rival in Rapthadu and sitting Penukonda legislator, Paritala Sunitha, was behind his arrest with the help of a few ruling party leaders in Karnataka.

The campaign of the Congress candidate is likely to suffer with only two days left for close of electioneering and four days left for polling. Besides, Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy is scheduled to conduct a road show in Rapthadu on Monday evening along with eight other election meetings in the district.

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