Sunday, July 5, 2009
Malayali student alleges rape by TDP MLA
Even as Kovvur MLA T V Rama Rao has been crying foul, accusing the Andhra Pradesh Government of trying to implicate him in a criminal case, the issue took a curious turn on Saturday when five girl students of Spruha College of Nursing, owned by him, alleged that he was sexually harassing them.
The students, Nimisha Jacobs, M S Leena, Neetu Sailajan, Neetumol Joy and Dhanalakshmi, all from Kerala, called on Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and submitted a representation in which they accused the TDP legislator of attempting to rape a student and misbehaving with others.
The allegations come almost a fortnight after the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) began a probe into a complaint filed against the MLA by a local Dalit leader. Later, the legislator went on a hunger-strike in the Capital charging the State Government with harassing him for political and other reasons.
After meeting the Home Minister, the students accompanied by their roommates and others met CID officials who recorded their statement. Later, they also narrated their version before AP State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) chairman B Subhashan Reddy. “He made ugly advances at one student saying that if she cooperated with him, he would take her to Singapore and marry her.
We kept quiet all these days as he is of our parents’ age. But on June 14, he tried to rape a girl, ” they alleged.
The students, Nimisha Jacobs, M S Leena, Neetu Sailajan, Neetumol Joy and Dhanalakshmi, all from Kerala, called on Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and submitted a representation in which they accused the TDP legislator of attempting to rape a student and misbehaving with others.
The allegations come almost a fortnight after the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) began a probe into a complaint filed against the MLA by a local Dalit leader. Later, the legislator went on a hunger-strike in the Capital charging the State Government with harassing him for political and other reasons.
After meeting the Home Minister, the students accompanied by their roommates and others met CID officials who recorded their statement. Later, they also narrated their version before AP State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) chairman B Subhashan Reddy. “He made ugly advances at one student saying that if she cooperated with him, he would take her to Singapore and marry her.
We kept quiet all these days as he is of our parents’ age. But on June 14, he tried to rape a girl, ” they alleged.
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