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Novel protest by rowdy-sheeter

Staff Reporter

BHIMAVARAM: The ‘counseling' by police to history-sheeters drew a novel protest from a person identified as Chunduri Sitaramprasad, a history-sheeter himself, here on Friday. He created a scene for more than three hours sending the police into jitters by climbing a cell tower and making a suicide bid. He demanded the release of his brother Chunduri Babji, an accused in the murder of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) member Kathari Prabhakara Rao and another Congress leader Irrinki Ramu, from the police custody. He accused the police of terrorising the families of those ‘branded' as history-sheeters in the name of counseling.

The police turned up the heat on the rowdy-sheeters in the light of the otherwise peaceful town earning notoriety as a supplier of hired killers. A gang was allegedly hired from this town to carry out twin murders near Undi some three months ago. In this backdrop, the police identified 20 persons with criminal background in the town. Narsapur DSP Ravi Varma summoned all the 20 history sheeters to a police station in the town for ‘counselling' recently. Some of those who received counselling from the police reportedly fled home and took shelter in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, the police foiled the suicide bid by Sitaram Prasad and took him into custody.

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