Mob attacks Khammam corporator, torches his car

Hyderabad: An angry mob assaulted Khammam

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Ramoorthy Naik and torched his car at Kaikondayagudem village on the outskirts of Khammam on Tuesday . The incident took place when Naik, I division TRS corporator, went to Kaikondayagudem to inspect pipe laying works.

When Naik reached Kaikondayagudem, family members of 23-year-old Anand Tej, an engineering graduate who recently died under suspicious circumstances while attending some work at Naik’s function hall on August 18, gheraoed him. “Family members of Anand Tej alleged that the corporator was responsible for his death and started heckling him. Soon, other villagers joined. To escape the mob, Naik along with a friend, Venkata Ramaiah, ran into a nearby government school. They locked themselves up in a room,” Khanapur Haveli inspector U Venkanna Babu said. The mob then torched Naik’s car. Meanwhile, a police team rushed to the spot and dispersed the mob. “Our team rescued the corporator and took him to safety,” Khammam commissioner Tafseer Iqbal said.On August 18, Anand, and five others from his village, went to work at Vamsi Krishna function hall. “At the hall, Anand suddenly collapsed due to fits and was declared brought dead at a nearby hospital,” the inspector said.