T V RAMA RAO

POLITICS

TDP legislator held for molesting Kerala students

July 20, 2009, 5:49 pm | IANS POLITICS

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Police on Monday arrested a legislator belonging to the main Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on charges of molesting female students from Kerala at the nursing college run by him. A three-member team from the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the state police arrested T V Rama Rao in Kovvur in the coastal district of West Godavari. The arrest was made two weeks after five female students of TVR College of Nursing in Nidadavolu town in West Godavari district complained to the state Home Minister and state Human Rights Commission that Rama Rao tried to molest them. Earlier on June 18, Nidadavolu Police had booked the legislator for rape and murder of a student.

INDIA

Second nursing student alleges Andhra MLA raped her

July 4, 2009, 3:21 pm | IANS INDIA

Hyderabad: The murder and rape case against a legislator of Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Saturday took a new turn when another student of a nursing college run by the politician complained to the state's home minister that he raped her. The student, along with four others and their parents, met Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy to complain against T V Rama Rao, MLA from Kovvur Assembly constituency. One student said the politician had raped her and another alleged that he had twice attempted to rape her. The minister said the nursing students were from a college in Nidadavolu town in West Godavari district. "Three other students who were sharing a room