CBI probe sought into Visakhapatnam custodial death

VISAKHAPATNAM: The leaders of Mahila Chetana, Human Rights Forum (HRF) and

civil liberties associations

(CLC),

Chaitanya Mahila Sangham

, Atheists Association demanded the government to initiate CBI inquiry into the alleged custodial death of habitual offender Gorle Pydiraju. It is recalled that there was news circulated in social media that a habitual offender Pydiraju on September 11.


City police initiated an inquiry with the joint city

police commissioner D Nagendra Kumar

. Interestingly, neither the deceased’s family members nor the relatives have come openly to reveal anything about him.

Speaking to media persons here on Sunday, leaders K Padma, VS Krishna and Kottapalli Venkata Ramana asked whether Pydiraju is alive or dead. Cops who have been facing allegations should give a clarity over the issue and why the police commissioner is not responding when severe allegations were levelled against his department, they asked.

“We came to a conclusion that Pydiraju was no more as his sister on Saturday at Vizianagaram announced that he has died in KGH. She informed that she too visited the city central crime station for two days but no information was given by the cops,” the people’s organisations leaders said.

They further asked that if Pydiraju died in the KGH they why the cops are not revealing admission and discharge or death information. CBI inquiry is the only solution to bring out the facts, they said.

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