Hyderabad: The State Human Rights Commission asked the DGP and the chief secretary to submit a report on the arrest of farmers in connection with the protests against the gunman of Mahbubnagar district collector Ronald Ross reportedly assaulting a farmer in December.
They approached the commission on Tuesday which directed the DGP and the chief secretary to submit a report on the incident by March 20.
Three brothers, M. Shivveer Reddy, M. Raghuveer Reddy and M. Dharmaveer Reddy, from Vattugandla in Damaragidda Mandal said in their petition that on December 30, when Raghuveer was ploughing his field using a tractor, two unidentified persons carrying weapons approached him and asked him about a tractor on the road.
When he said it was not his, they abused him and asked him to get out of the field. Another eight persons came to the scene and ordered him to be tied up and put in their vehicle.
According to the complaint, the people while assaulting him said, “When the collector calls, how dare you don’t come?”
Farmers and labourers gathered and stopped them from taking Raghuveer Reddy away. The collector’s security staff assaulted him brutally, he claimed.
When his brothers and other villagers went to the police station to lodge a complaint, police framed false charges against all of them and ignored their petition
On January 6, top police officials from Narayanpet, Kosgi and Damaragidda picked them up and took them to Damaragidda police station where they were subjected to third degree torture and threatened, they claimed.
They then lodged a complaint before the commission against the collector, deputy collector and the top cops.
