PAHADI SHAREEF: 14 ARRESTED IN TRIBAL WOMAN GANG-RAPE CASE

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda police on Sunday arrested five men for assaulting and raping a tribal woman in Pahadi Shareef a week ago, and nine others who tried to hush up the issue by forcibly taking signatures from the victims.
Police officials said the accused claimed that the woman and her husband used to pilfer chicken feed from the poultry farm of their employer – prime accused Prasad Reddy — and supply it to the owner of a rival farm. This incensed Prasad, who committed the atrocity on the couple out of vengeance. The first-five accused were identified as Mucha Prasanth Reddy alias Prasad Reddy, 30, Mucha Anil Reddy, 26, R Bharath, 26, Devarshetty Pavan Kumar, 29, and Cikkimpuri Hanmanthu, 25, who had raped the woman and physically assaulted her.
The accused used filthy language and abused her by her caste name, and also beat the husband with belts and pipes. They were allowed to go with several warnings and threats after the couple gave them Suresh’s name —MAHESH BHAGWAT, Rachakonda Police Commissioner ACCUSED ATTEMPTED TO BURY THE MATTER The other nine men, who attempted to bury the matter by getting the victim and her husband sign on papers, were Varthya Ravinder, 37, Bhavani Venkat Reddy, 51, Jatavath Ravinder alias Ravi Naik, 32, Charalapally Yadaiah, 41, Jarpula Raju, 32, Baygari Suresh, 35, Anugu Lokesh, 33, Megavath Vijay Kumar alias Vijay Naik, 43, and Mucha Janardhan Reddy, 43. Another accused in the case, Chandrashekar Reddy, is absconding. The victim, a Nagar Kurnool resident, and her husband Chandu, had migrated to Maheshwaram recently.
The couple took up work at a poultry farm belonging to prime accused Prasad Reddy, said Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat. Reddy incurred a loss in the business because the couple was supplying bags of chicken feed to Suresh, who is from another poultry farm.
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