The attack on the Vikarabad revenue department officials in Lagacharla village of Dudyala mandal of Vikarabad district on Monday (November 11) right in the presence of the district Collector has become a sensation in the State.
Tehsildars and revenue officials across the district staged a protest today with black badges against the attack on the officials. Several political leaders have also been coming to the mandals after the incident, and the police have been put on high alert due to the protests on one side and the influx on the other.
The police have been carrying out checking of vehicles due to all the people coming to the district. Police forces have also cordoned off Lagacharla since Monday midnight, and electricity was cut off and every house blocked in the village. No one is being allowed to enter the mandals, either, and Internet services have also been suspended in Dudyala, Kodangal and Bomraspet mandals.
The District Superintendent of Police Narayana Reddy said that 52 people had been taken into custody in connection with the incident. "We are investigating the conspiracy angle in the attack on the officials," he said. According to him, Bogamoni Suresh Raj, a resident of Hyderabad and a native of Lagacharla who was appointed as the BRS youth wing leader of Dudyala mandal, was one of the key accused in the attack on the officials.
"We are also investigating from a political angle, and everything will be known in the course of the investigation," he said.
For the uninitiated, the Congress government, through the TGIIC, is trying to set up a pharma company in Lagicharla, and is trying to persuade the farmers there to give up their lands for the venture. On Monday, the Vikarabad Collector Prateek Jain and Additional Collector G Lingya Naik, and Kodangal Area Development Authority (KADA) Chairman Venkat Reddy went to the village to meet the farmers, when Suresh Raj with a mob allegedly masquerading as farmers attacked them. Jain says he was not personally manhandled, but many of the other officials were reportedly injured.
[Some data for this article came from
The Hindu.]