Vijayawada Lock Up Death Ci Nagaraju Arrested

Stage is said to be set for the arrest of police inspector S S V Nagaraju of Krishna Lanka police station in Vijayawada, who was accused in the sensational missing of 25-year-old rowdy sheeter Gade Sai Krishna, who is believed to have been killed in lock-up last month.

According to sources, the special investigation team (SIT) of the top police officials constituted by the Chandrababu Naidu government to probe the issue gathered all the evidences against Nagaraju and submitted the same to Director General of Police Harish Kumar Gupta on Tuesday.

Following his directions, the SIT authorities visited Nagaraju’s house at Singh Nagar in Vijayawada to take him into custody. His supporters, however, tried to resist the attempts of the police to arrest him.

On June 19, the police registered a murder case against Nagaraju, based on a complaint given by Sai Krishna’s mother Vijayalakshmi to Vijayawada commissioner of police S V Rajasekhar Babu. But even after three days, the police did not arrest him.

This was questioned by YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday night.

“Mr. Chandrababu Naidu Garu, is Sai Krishna dead or alive? If he is dead, where is his body? An FIR was registered four days ago. Why aren’t any arrests made yet?” he tweeted.

Adding a twist to the whole episode, the SIT authorities discovered that crucial CCTV footage linked to the investigation has gone missing.

According to SIT officials, CCTV recordings covering the period from May 1 to June 1, nearly a month of footage, have been deleted from the surveillance system.

Investigators found that while footage for only two days was retained, the remaining recordings were removed.

The missing footage is considered critical to establishing the sequence of events surrounding Saikrishna’s disappearance.

The development has raised suspicions about whether there was external involvement in the incident or whether it was part of a meticulously planned kidnapping operation.

The deletion of the footage is particularly significant because a court had recently directed that all CCTV recordings related to the case be preserved securely during the investigation.

SIT officials suspect that the footage may have been deliberately erased to destroy vital evidence and shield those responsible.

Investigators are now working with data recovery experts to retrieve the deleted recordings.

The disappearance of such crucial evidence has prompted the SIT to accelerate its investigation as it seeks to uncover the truth behind Saikrishna’s disappearance.