Hyderabad: An 11-page letter that the Andhra Pradesh police said was found in the pocket of YSRC president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s attacker, Janipalli Srinivasa Rao, has sparked a controversy.
Sajjala Rama Krishna Reddy, YSRC general secretary, told this newspaper, “When party members searched the man upside down, they found nothing except for the knife. The AP police at around 8 pm the same day released the letter stating that they found it in the attacker’s pocket. Then, within a short period of the attack, Andhra Pradesh’s Director General of Police, R.P. Thakur, held a press conference, even before the investigation is completed, and declared Janipalli Srinivasa Rao is a fan of Jagan and claimed he had a letter in his pocket to prove it, but by then the accused was in the custody of the Central Industrial Security Force. How could the top cop know about these details even before the CISF handed over Srinivasa Rao to the Andhra Pradesh Police?”
He added, “The police claimed that the man wrote a lengthy letter over days page by page, but going by what the Andhra Pradesh police released to the public, the letter looked like it was written on the same day as it had no stains, wasn’t crumpled, and the handwriting was mismatched.” Srinivasa blamed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for the troubles of the people of Andhra Pradesh and said that he had high regard for the late Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. He said that he did not want any post or status through the act. If something happened to him, his organs must be donated, he urged.
DGP, Andhra Pradesh police, R P Thakur was unavailable for comment.
