Eluru, July 20 :-
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and Kovvur MLA, Mr T V Rama Rao, was on Monday taken into cusotdy by the CBCID sleuths in the case related to the alleged atrocity on the students of his nursing college. He was shifted to the Rajamendri Central Jail for judicial remand till August 3.
Mr Rama Rao was arrested by the CBCID police from his native village and is shifted to the Eluru police station for further investigations. “Prima facie, there is a case against the MLA and thus he is taken into custody,” CBCID Assistant Superintendent of Police (ACP), Mr Gopala Raju, told media persons after the arrest.
He was later produced before the Second Metropolitan Magistrate Court. The MLA was remanded in judicial custody till August 3 and was shifted to the Rajahmundry Central Prison.
The TDP legislator was in a deep controversy after a case of atrocity agaisnt a gril student was reported from his TVR Nursing College last month. Though initially the district administration has given him a clean chit after a preliminary investigation, later he was charged with indulging in such atrocities against some students from Kerala studying in his college.
The nursing students from Kerala even met the Home Minsiter, Mrs Sabitah Indra Reddy, and also the Governor, Mr N D Tiwari, accusing the MLA of indulging in such incidents and dmanded action against him. Following the serious charges against him, the State Government has asked the CBCID to inquire into the whole episode.
The series of agitations by both the MLA and the TDP did not yield much results in favour of the legislator. The CBCID, after a prima facie evidence, finally arrested him on Monday and shifted him to the Eluru police station.