11 held for lynching engineering student

Repalle: A day after an angry mob lynched an engineering student suspecting he killed a girl, brother of the girl Shaik Jasmin and 10 others of Adavuladeevi village in Nizampatnam mandal in Guntur district were taken into custody on Monday and booked under sections 302 and 71 of IPC.
High tension prevailed at the Government General Hospital here when family members of the deceased engineering student, Vemula Sri Sai, shouted slogans against police for failing to act in time.
Police imposed section 144 in the town and called additional forces to GGH fearing reprisals from both families. Shaik Shadullah, brother of Jasmin, is being interrogated by cops on the circumstances that led to the killing of Sai.
Curiously , on a complaint from Jasmin's mother Mehrunnisa, police registered section 302 on Sai's accomplice Konna Pawan Kumar, who survived the mob attack.
After several hours of tension, the hospital staff conducted post-mortem on the bodies of Jasmin and Sai and handed them over to the family mem bers. Sources said the postmortem report on Jasmin indicated physical assault on her as her collar bone was found broken.
Police authorities, however, were tightlipped if she was sexually assaulted by Sai as alleged by the girl's family members. Sai's mother, on the other hand, Vemula Leela, a social worker in the village, said that had the Adavuladeevi police acted swiftly, her son could have been alive. She said police remained as mute spectators even as the villagers rained blows with a cricket bat, bricks and sticks.
Leela wanted action against Adavuladeevi sub-inspector (SI) Srinivasa Rao for not taking statements of Sai and Jasmin's friend Jubedha, who was an eye-witness to the entire episode. Sai has a younger sister and his father is a mathematics teacher in Muthupalli ZP High School.
Reacting to the allegations of Sai's mother Leela, Bapatla zone DSP Mahesh said the cops tried their best to rescue Sai and Pawan from the clutches of nearly 400 villagers.
"We faced a lot of resistance from the villagers. Initially, we thought of shifting both to a private hospital but the villagers outnumbered us. Sai must have suffered a brain haemorrhage after the thrashings and collapsed in the process and died," he said.