KTR Intervenes On The Issue Of Constable Kicking A Dead Girl's Father

A police constable, who kicked the father of an intermediate girl who had committed suicide on Tuesday, was attached to the AR headquarter on Wednesday with immediate effect. He faces disciplinary action after a detailed inquiry into his alleged highhanded behavior.

The in-charge Superintendent of Police of Sangareddy district Chandana Deepthi initiated the action after TRS working President and IT & Industries Minister KT Rama Rao took serious note of the incident.

A video clip that shows police constable Sridhar kicking the father, Chandrashekhar, went viral on social media platforms on Wednesday.

Sandhya Rani (16), a native of Yenugonda in Mahabubnagar district, was a first-year Intermediate student of Narayana Junior College at Velimela. She committed suicide on Tuesday and her body was shifted to Area Hospital, Patancheru, for postmortem. The parents, however, supported by local students' union leaders, staged a protest on Wednesday morning. Chandrashekar and his wife Padma demanded that the police take the body to the college premises to seek an explanation from the management on her suicide. The controversial kicking incident took place when the police were trying to shift Sandhya’s body back to the hospital.

Rama Rao's tweet said that he would bring the issue to the notice of Home Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali. “Will request Mahmood Ali Saab and the @TelanganaDGPGaru to review the insensitive handling by these policemen. Showing empathy in times of grief such as this is the basic courtesy that is expected of government officials,” he said.

Responding to the Minister’s tweet, DGP Mahender Reddy described it as an unfortunate incident. “The concerned police officer has been directed to take measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Chandana Deepthi, in a statement, said the entire police department regrets the insensitive behavior of the police constable.