HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) today urged Director General of Police (DGP) K Aravind Rao to reopen the suicide case of realtor GNM Mastan Rao in public interest.
The TDP told the DGP that Mastan Rao had stated in the suicide note that criminal gangs were operating in the city claiming links with YS Jagan Reddy, son of the late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
In a memorandum to the DGP, the TDP said the suicide note of Mastan Rao, which is now before the public, narrated the agonising story of an individual who was hounded by criminal gangs. Mastan Rao had even named the police officers who had threatened him instead of protecting him. Mastan Rao appealed to the government in the suicide note that action should be taken against the criminal elements and justice be done to his family.
“It is shocking that the dying declaration had been ignored under flimsy grounds and the case was closed without proper investigation,” TDP leaders Teegala Krishna Reddy and Varla Ramaiah said in the memorandum. Recent revelations regarding land deals involving Srikanth Gowd and D Krishna, named in the suicide note, along with Bhanu Kiran, accused in the murder of M Suri, clearly established the fact that the law and order situation in the city and the state was deteriorating. It was a matter of serious concern that mafia gangs were controlling the real estate and film industry, the TDP leaders said.