TIRUPATI: High drama prevailed at Obanapalli in Chittoor for the interval of the intervening night time of Thursday and Friday when police raided a house belonging to the follower of outmoded metropolis mayor and Telugu Desam leader Katari Hemalatha.
Her followers claimed she suffered minor accidents after being hit by a police automobile when she resisted an strive of police to arrest one in every of her followers, Poorna Chandra. Police like, nonetheless, denied the allegation.
Based mostly entirely on police, they arrested one Prasanna Kumar after they recovered 2 kg of ganja from his possession. Based mostly entirely on his confession, police raided the house in Obanapalli belonging to Hemalatha’s follower Poorna Chandra late on Thursday night time.
“We stumbled on 18 kg of ganja clandestinely kept within the compound of Poorna Chandra. After we had been returning with the contraband and the 2 accused Prasanna and Poorna Chandra, a crew of americans blocked our automobile and took the duo away,” II City circle inspector P. Yatheendra instructed Deccan Chronicle.
Based mostly entirely on sources, on receiving knowledge about the police raid, Hemalatha, alongside alongside with her followers, reached Obanapalli and blocked the jeep by which the 2 accused had been being taken away. When the police tried to lope away, the car scraped against the outmoded mayor, who reportedly suffered a minor atomize and used to be straight rushed to sanatorium.
The circle inspector maintained that their automobile did no longer hit anyone and none used to be damage within the incident, although accused Prasanna and Poorna Chandra had been taken away by the crew. Yatheendra acknowledged they’ve booked cases against the crew of those that escaped with the accused and steer clear off police from discharging their responsibilities.
In the period in-between, TD chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, disclose occasion president K. Atchannaidu, MLC Nara Lokesh and rather just a few occasion leaders like condemned police action against Hemalatha and her followers.
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