In order to evade the police, who were conducting patrolling to check open consumption of liquor, an engineering student while trying to flee accidentally fell into an open well and got drowned in Maqdhoompur village.
Sources said Gangadhara Sravan Kumar (23), a native of Ramakrishnapur in Mancherial district, along with his friends was consuming liquor in an open place adjacent to a liquor shop on Tuesday night. During the period, they listened to the police siren and sensing that the police would arrest them, they ran helter-skelter. In the darkness, Sravan Kumar fell into an open well. His friends searched for him in the night and thought that the police might have arrested him.
On Wednesday morning, his friends went to the Karimnagar rural police station and inquired about Sravan. When the police said they had not arrested any person, they again visited the liquor shop area and searched for him. They noticed the body of Sravan floating in an open well and alerted the police. The victim was studying B. Tech in a private engineering college in the region and was residing in a hostel in Maqdhoompur village.
Third incident
The Karimnagar Commissionerate of Police had cracked whip against the open consumption of liquor in the district for last eight months. The police had deployed drone cameras to check open consumption of liquor. This is the third incident of a youth falling to death into open well while trying to evade police for open consumption of liquor. in the district. Last year in December a youth Raju fell in an open well in Durshed.