Uppala Madhavi, mother of Uppala Amarnath, 15, who was burnt alive allegedly by miscreants who poured petrol on him and set him on fire on June 16 morning, at Rajolu village in Cherukupalli mandal, has demanded either capital punishment or life imprisonment to the accused persons responsible for her son’s murder.
Speaking to The Hindu at her house here, Ms. Madhavi claimed that she was striving to educate her children since her husband’s death 14 years back. Her daughter studying Intermediate goes to college in Cherukupalli, while her son was studying tenth standard in a school in Rajolu. Both of them had to pass through Rajolu, where the accused, Pamu Venkateswara Reddy, resided. Though the accused had been harassing her 17-year-old daughter for long time, they came to know about it in the recent past, she said.
“About a couple of months back, Amarnath objected to Venkateswara Reddy’s behaviour and warned him not to harass my daughter. At that time, the accused took Amaranath to some place in an autorickshaw, beat him up and threw him on the street,” she alleged. After that the family informed about the incident to the accused’s father, Sambi Reddy, and told them that they would be held responsible for anything that would happen to her childen, Ms. Madhavi said.
