Chandramukhi Muvvala, a transgender candidate fielded by Bahujan Left Front (BLF) on Thursday stated before High Court of Judicature-Hyderabad that she was kidnapped on the morning of November 27 by two unknown men, who forced her at knife point to leave the city.
Mx. Muvvala had gone missing a day after she started her election campaign.
Reading a statement which she submitted on the court’s order to judicial magistrate, a division bench comprising Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Sathyanarayana Murthy asked Telangana police to provide protection to Mx. Muvvala till the process of election concludes. The court also instructed police to treat her statement as a complaint and investigate into the incident.
On November 28, her mother Anitha filed a Habeas Corpus writ in the High Court and the court directed Telangana police to produce her by 10.15 am on November 29. However, late at night on November 28, Mx. Muvvala surfaced at Banjara Hills police station along with her lawyer, Vasudha Nagaraj, and a few BLF activists and transgender persons.
On Thursday at 2.15 pm, the court directed Mx. Muvvala to record her statement with judicial registrar.
In her statement, Mx. Muvvala noted she left her home to deposit money in an ATM in Abids. There she was forced to board an autorickshaw and two men who sat with her in the back seat threatened her. The man who sat to her right put a knife to her ribs and the man to her left asked her why she wants to “do the work which does not suit her age”. Mx. Muvvala also stated she fell unconscious briefly when she was in the auto rickshaw.
According to the statement, when she regained consciousness her phone was snatched away and she was provided with a small cell phone and a ear phone.
Mx. Muvvala stated she was asked to leave the city if she feared for her life. The men who called her on the cell phone asked her to go to Vijayawada and later to Chennai.
In Chennai she decided to take the risk and refused to obey them further, the statement read. She came back to Tirupathi and later Hyderabad. When she reached the city she approached her friends who later, with the help of her lawyer, took her to the Banjara Hills police station, Mx. Muvvala stated.