Mother-daughter duo partly burried amid property dispute

Two men have been book in Andhra Pradesh for allegedly dumping mud on a mother-daughter duo who were protesting over a property dispute in a village in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam.

According to the Sub Inspector of Mandasa police, Ravi Kumar the police have booked and arrested the tractor driver Prakasa Rao, and a relative of the victim women Rama Rao, under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The mother-daughter duo has been identified as Kotra Dalamma (70) and Majji Savitri (around 40).  Since past few years, both have been fighting for their land in Haripuram.

Seeking justice from the government officials, the duo has alleged Kotra Rama Rao (Savitri’s cousin), Ananda Rao and Prakash Rao of the same village for encroaching on the land. According to the police, Dalama and Savitri were trying to protest when the latter’s cousin started construction on the vacant land whose ownership was the matter of dispute and as the women impede the construction, Rao allegedly instructed the tractor’s driver to dump mud on these two women as a result of which they got partially buried under the red gravel.

Both the parties have registered various cases against each other after the land was distributed among Dalamma’s deceased husband and his siblings.