A 40-year-old businessman Santosh and his sexagenarian mother Padma, hailing from Ramayampet of Medak district, ‘ended their lives’ by setting themselves afire in a lodge in Kamareddy, allegedly due to harassment by seven persons in their home town.
Based on two separate selfie video clips of the two victims, Kamareddy police registered a case of abetment to suicide against Ramayampet municipal chairman Jithender Goud and six others. While Kamareddy police are on the look-out for the accused who drove the mother and the son to suicide, tension prevailed at Ramayampet town when relatives, friends and locals staged protest demonstration after placing bodies of the victims before the house of Mr. Goud.
Police had tough time controlling the agitating crowd. Medak SP Rohini Priyadarshini turned up at the house of Mr. Goud, who locked the house and went away, and assured the protestors that she would take all steps to ensure the guilty were punished. Tempers ran high when local workers and leaders of different political parties joined the agitators and urged the police authorities to immediately arrest the accused in the case.
