HYDERABAD: A day after former Andhra Pradesh minister Akhila Priya was arrested for her alleged role in abducting three businessmen, who are chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s PA’s relatives, the 32-year-old has been named main accused in the case. In the remand report, it was stated that Akhila Priya’s henchmen hit the victims with sticks at a farm house on the outskirts of the city and abandoned them as police intensified the search.
“The victims said the accused blindfolded them and bound them while abducting them. They were kept in captivity at an undisclosed farm house where the accused beat them with sticks and forcibly took signatures on some documents,” Bowenpally inpector K Ravi Kumar mentioned in the report. The victims told police, while in captivity, they overheard “the accused conversing with Akhila madam, Bhargav sir and Subba Reddy” and as the abduction news had become sensational, the accused had to abandon them. Police apprehended Akhila Priya at her house at Lodha Apartments, Kukatpally.
“On interrogation, Akhila admitted she along with her husband Bhargav Ram and AV Subba Reddy organised the offence to extort money as they are not satisfied with previous settlement of Hafeezpet land dispute,” the inspector mentioned in the report.
A local court posted Akhila’s bail petition to Friday. Police are planning to seek her custody. She is lodged at Chanchalguda prison.