Woman lodges complaint against two former TDP ministers under SC/ST Act

Kakinada: A case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been filed against former finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnadu, former home minister Nimmakayala Chinarajappa and five others at Thondangi police station in East Godavari district.
The case was booked on the basis of a complaint from a SC woman, who alleged that the accused were trying to get her husband to remarry.Complainant Pilli Manju Priya, a resident of Madhavapatnam in Samalkota mandal, said in her complaint that she married Pilli Radhakrishna — son of former Kakinada (Rural) MLA Pilli Anantha Lakshmi — in 2011. The couple has two children.
Manju Priya alleged in the complaint that her in-laws refused to accept her because of her lower caste. She said she was also repeatedly threatened to leave her husband and make a settlement. She further said that she came to know that her husband was planning to remarry on June 11, and the marriage venue was a rice mill at AV Nagaram in Thondangi mandal, which she claimed is owned by Yanamala. Manju Priya said she lodged a complaint with Disha police station in Kakinada, following which cops from Indrapalem and Thondangi police stations went to the spot and stopped the marriage. She claimed that she has evidence to prove that former TDP ministers Yanamala and Chinarajappa were involved in the marriage arrangements.
Police have lodged an FIR against her husband Pilli Radhakrishna, her in-laws Pilli Satyanarayana and Pilli Anantha Lakshmi, TDP Tuni constituency in-charge Yanamala Krishnudu, besides the two former ministers.
East Godavari SP Adnan Nayeem Asmi said a case has been registered on the basis of the woman’s complaint. “This is a domestic issue. We will investigate if the former ministers were involved in the marriage arrangements as alleged by the complainant, or if they were there as guests,” he said.