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The Hindu
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Staff Reporter

Andhra Pradesh: Varla demands apology from CID over ‘custodial torture’

The chief of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) should tender an apology to two persons who were subjected to custodial torture on suspicion of circulating a post related to Y.S. Vijayamma, TDP Polit Bureau member Varla Ramaiah demanded on Tuesday.

In a letter to the Additional Director General of Police (CID) on Tuesday, Mr. Ramaiah alleged that a person named Garlapati Venkateswara Rao was picked up from his residence in Dharanikota village in Amaravati mandal of Palnadu districton June 29 while Mokarala Sambasiva Rao was picked up from his residence in Amaravati at midnight.

“Both of them were stripped at the CID’s interrogation room and were subjected to custodial torture using third-degree methods,” Mr. Ramaiah alleged.

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