Visakhapatnam: The daughter-in-law of AP Speaker Kodela Sivaprasad Rao has filed a case of kidnapping against her estranged husband Kodela Sivaramakrishna and 10 others at the III Town police station here last night. V. Padmapriya, a BTech graduate from Gitam University, and daughter of builder V. Krishna Rao, married Sivaprasad Rao’s son Sivaramakrishna in 2009 and was staying at her father V. Krishna Rao’s home near Pedawaltair in Vizag since a year with her four-year-old son K. Gautham due to problems with her husband and in-laws.
“Last night at around 10 pm, my husband, along with Koteswara Rao of the Vikas group of educational institutes, Ramesh of Jayalakshmi Sea Foods, Koneru Suresh, Prasad and some others, including two armed men barged into my parents’ house by breaking the doors with iron rods. They attacked me and my mother V. Varalakshmi,” said Padmapriya. “Anticipating danger, I made a call to 100 seeking police protection. But, the police came to the spot and left. My husband and his gang forcibly took away Gautham,” she said. “After marriage I came to know that I was the second wife of Kodela Sivaramakrishna as his first wife had left him.
Soon after the marriage, my in-laws Kodela Sivaprasad Rao and his wife Sasikala and daughter Dr Vijaya Lakshmi harassed me and my husband also supported them, Padmapriya said. Our family has been facing threats. The threats increased after the TD came to power and Sivaprasad became speaker,” she added. When contacted cops of III Town agreed that Padmapriya had lodged a complaint against her husband and 10 others, but cops refused to divulge details of the case. However, DCP (Law and Order, Zone-II) M. Srinivasulu said they have registered a case against Kodela Sivaramakrishna under Section 363, 498 (A) and other sections.
