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Amid rumours that 25-year-old Gade Sai Krishna was beaten to decease successful constabulary custody and that his assemblage was allegedly cremated to destruct evidence, constabulary and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) teams connected Saturday visited the Krishnalanka constabulary presumption and a section burial crushed arsenic portion of the ongoing investigation.
Sai Krishna was reportedly picked up by the Krishnalanka constabulary connected May 9 and has been missing since then. Following this, his mother, Gade Vijaya Lakshmi, moved the High Court seeking directions to the constabulary to nutrient her son. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who reviewed the incidental connected June 18, directed the authorities to suspend Krishnalanka Circle Inspector Nagaraju and registry cases against him nether the applicable provisions of law.
As portion of the investigation, Patamata Circle Inspector V. Pavan Kishore examined CCTV footage from cameras installed on the National Highway and the work roadworthy starring to the Swargapuri burial ground. He besides enquired with the burial crushed unit astir the fig of bodies, peculiarly unidentified ones, cremated determination since May 23.
The constabulary squad examined the attraction of registers, the procedures followed for cremations, the preservation of remains, and the roles of constabulary and municipal corp officials successful handling unclaimed bodies.
“We person collected information connected the accomplishment of bodies from assorted locations and connected unclaimed bodies cremated astatine the burial ground. A elaborate probe is nether way,” Mr. Pavan Kishore said.
Later, constabulary took the burial crushed unit into custody for questioning and seized their mobile phones.
Meanwhile, an probe squad led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Daiva Prasad questioned constables, the presumption writer, sentry unit and different unit astatine the Krishnalanka constabulary station. Investigators sought details connected erstwhile Sai Krishna was brought to the station, the duration of his detention, his attraction successful custody, the unit connected work during the period, and those who assisted Mr. Nagaraju during the interrogation.
The squad besides examined the CCTV surveillance strategy astatine the constabulary presumption and backstage cameras installed successful the vicinity.
“We person seized mobile phones and records from some the constabulary presumption and the burial ground,” a constabulary official, speaking connected information of anonymity, told The Hindu connected Saturday.
