After a third-year girl student doing B Tech was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur, the opposition parties attacked Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on the issue of women’s safety.
AB.Tech third-year student was stabbed to death in broad daylight on Sunday in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur. The incident created a political row with the oppositions attacking Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on the issue of women’s safety.
N Ramya, the third-year student of St Mary’s College, was attacked when she was returning home after attending the Independence Day function at her college. She was rushed to Guntur’s Government General Hospital, but the doctors declared her dead.
SP Guntur Urban, Arif Hussain, had reached the hospital thereafter and launched a probe. Police analysed the mobile of the deceased and questioned her friends to identify the accused. It was discovered that a young man had attacked her with a knife on Nadi Road.
Later, state Director General of Police DG Sawang said the accused in the case has been arrested.
“The local people provided crucial clues that led to the arrest of the accused. Also, the CCTV camera footage helped us identify the accused,” the DGP said in a release.
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the victim. He directed the officials concerned to take care of her family.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Mekathoti Sucharitha and the state’s women commission chairman, V Padma, reached the hospital and enquired about the incident with the police and family.
TDP slams YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
TDP General Secretary and MLC Nara Lokesh condemned the murder of N Ramya in Guntur and demanded that the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP government take immediate steps to arrest the culprits responsible for the killing.
“It is shocking that the ghastly murder took place just around the same time when Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was speaking eloquently on the Disha Act and women safety in his Independence Day speech. It is clear now that the much-trumpeted Disha Act of the YSRCP government was of no use at all in ensuring security to women,” said Nara Lokesh.
The TDP also criticised the law and order situation in Andhra Pradesh and alleged that not a single woman had received justice in the murders and atrocities cases in the past two and half years of the YSRCP rule.
Nara Lokesh said, “Because of the failure of the Disha Act and the Government, the life of yet another aspiring girl came to an abrupt end now.”
