Speaks to girl’s father on video call
‘Rape and murder’ being portrayed as suicide
Father says Tejaswini was raped and killed
AMARAVATI: TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Saturday accused the police of trying to cover up the ‘rape and murder’ of B.Pharmacy girl student Tejaswini at Gorantla in Sri Satya Sai district.
Lokesh spoke over a video call to Tejaswini’s father Gopi and assured him of total support in his fight for justice in his daughter’s case. He consoled the father and said the life of a sister, who has a bright future, was cut short abruptly.
A press release here said that Nara Lokesh termed it as very painful to see so many atrocities being committed on women and girls continuously. The ghastly incidents were taking place in all corners of the State unabatedly.
Lokesh condemned that the police were enacting a drama in order to suppress the killing of Tejaswini. They were declaring her death as a suicide even before the post mortem was received. It was clear that the police were taking the issue very casually.
Nara Lokesh expressed his solidarity to Tejaswini’s father and that a united legal struggle should be carried out till justice was done. He asked the girl’s father to keep his courage and wait till the real facts would come out.
The TDP MLC asserted that no other girl should become a victim of such a ghastly crime in future. The TDP would extend all support necessary till the culprit was suitable punished in the Tejaswini ‘killing’.
Girl’s father Gopi told Lokesh that his daughter was a victim of rape and murder. The culprit lured and trapped Tejaswini who was studying in Tirupati. He brought her to his farm house where she was killed. Though the evidence was clear, the police were saying she committed suicide.
Tejaswini’s father confidently told Lokesh that her daughter was not a cowardly girl to take her own life. Her body was seen hanging on her knees on the cot at the ‘murder spot’. There were injuries on her cheeks that looked like bitemarks.
The aggrieved father deplored that they were trying to portray his daughter’s killing as a suicide. The real culprit should be sternly punished. If he was allowed to go free, he would commit such offences again.
Meanwhile, former Ministers Kalva Srinivasulu, Palle Raghunatha Reddy, Hindupur TDP parliament president B.K. Parthasarathy and ex ZP chairman Pula Naga Raju called on the family members of Tejaswini in Gorantla.
