CM Naidu Orders Probe Into Sai Krishna’s Missing Case

Vijayawada:Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has ordered an impartial inquiry by a senior IPS officer into the alleged disappearance of Gade Sai Krishna.

The Chief Minister, along with Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, held a meeting with Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad, DGP Harish Kumar Gupta, intelligence chief Mahesh Chandra Ladda, and Vijayawada Commissioner of Police S.V. Rajasekhar Babu at the Secretariat on Wednesday, soon after his return from Singapore, to review the case.

The DGP and other senior police officials briefed the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister on the issue. The Chief Minister directed the suspension of Krishnalanka Circle Inspector Nagaraju, who is facing allegations in connection with Sai Krishna’s disappearance, and called for stringent action against those found responsible.

Earlier, Sai Krishna's mother, Vijayalakshmi, alleged that her son had been tortured and killed in police custody and that his body was subsequently burnt with the involvement of CI Nagaraju and other police personnel.

“Who gave them the right to torture and kill my son and even burn his body?" she asked. "I earnestly appeal to the police to show me my son if he is alive, or at least hand over his mortal remains if he is dead so that I can pay my last respects to him.”

She said her 23-year-old son may have made mistakes like many youngsters but had moved to Markapuram from the city as he was unable to bear police harassment. She maintained that her family had no political affiliation and did not want the issue to be politicised. She appealed for justice and sought strict action against the police personnel allegedly involved.

Meanwhile, former minister Perni Venkataramaiah demanded a CBI probe into the case, stating that if the police could pick up a person, kill him, and ensure that his body remained untraceable, it would undermine the very foundations of the rule of law and the judicial system.

Speaking to the media at the YSR Congress's central office in Tadepalli, he said that branding Sai Krishna a rowdy-sheeter or citing criminal cases against him could not justify his alleged death at the hands of the police. He noted that if a person committed an offence, it was for the courts to determine guilt and impose punishment, not the police.