SIT harassment led to ex-TTD employee’s death, alleges YSRCP leader, demands SC-monitored probe

Former Minister and YSR Congress Party  (YSRCP) person Sake Sailajanath connected Friday (November 14, 2025) accused the members of Special Investigation Team (SIT) of driving erstwhile TTD Assistant Vigilance and Security Officer (AVSO) Satish Kumar to suicide. He demanded that the State authorities bid a judicial enquiry headed by a sitting Supreme Court justice to uncover the information down the officer’s death.

Speaking to the media astatine the YSRCP cardinal bureau connected Friday, Mr. Sailajanath alleged that Satish Kumar was subjected to continuous pressure, intelligence torture, and humiliating questioning by SIT officials probing the Parakamani overseas currency theft case. “Only an impartial, top-level judicial enquiry tin uncover what happened during the interrogation and however the SIT handled the case,” helium said.

Mr. Sailajanath noted that Satish Kumar had primitively filed a ailment years agone against 1 Ravi Kumar, alleging theft of overseas currency from the Tirumala Parakamani. Despite being the whistleblower successful the case, the reconstituted SIT named him arsenic an accused and issued repeated notices summoning him for questioning. Family members and colleagues reportedly said that Satish Kumar consistently maintained his innocence and had nary engagement successful the theft.

The find of Satish Kumar’s assemblage connected the Tadipatri railway way sent shockwaves crossed the region. TTD officials, Sailajanath said, judge it to beryllium a wide lawsuit of termination compelled by harassment. “He was the serviceman who exposed the theft, yet helium was vilified, tortured, and falsely implicated,” helium asserted.

The YSRCP person besides accused the conjugation authorities of turning the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) into a “political battleground.” He alleged that the medication is attempting to framework erstwhile TTD president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy done fabricated narratives and misuse of investigative agencies. “Pushing an guiltless authoritative to the brink of decease nether the guise of probe is an unforgivable act,” helium said.

Mr. Sailajanath demanded that the enquiry look into the SIT’s actions, the circumstances nether which Satish Kumar was interrogated, and whether coercion oregon misconduct contributed to his death. He urged the authorities to enactment an extremity to what helium described arsenic a vindictive and politically motivated approach.