Summary:
Around 1.15pm, residents found the body hanging from a tree in Daida and informed police. Ministers Chinnarajappa and Prathipati Pullarao were in Dachepalle to take stock of the situation when they were informed of the body. Chinnarajappa then announced that Subbaiah committed suicide.Not pacified by his death, Dachepalle residents insisted that Subbaiah’s body be handed over to them so that they can publicly set it afire. The profusely bleeding victim narrated the incident to her parents, following which villagers staged protests, blocked highways and vandalised the accused’s house. Finally, his son performed his last rites at Gurujala.The minor girl who underwent trauma after the assault is recovering at the Guntur Government General Hospital..