Alleging that there was no protection for women under the TRS rule, Telangana State Congress Mahila president Nerella Sharada demanded that the state government immediately order the arrest of MLC Bhoopati Reddy's son Snehith Reddy for committing rape.
Speaking to the media on Monday, Sharada alleged that the law and order situation had worsened after Telangana was carved out, and that those in power were committing heinous crimes and going scotfree. She said that the rape by Bhoopati Reddy's son was the best example of lawlessness in the state.
She promised that the Congress would stand by the girl who was raped.
In an incident that happened on Saturday night, a 24-year-old beautician went to her friend Priyatham Reddy's house at Palm Meadows in Petbasheerabad. She alleged in a police complaint that Reddy raped her, and then invited his friends Snehith Reddy and Aarav Reddy to do the same. She claimed to have managed to escape before the other two could rape her, too.
All three men are from influential families.
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