Summary:
more-inAndhra Pradesh SC, ST Commission Chairman Karem Sivaji on Thursday demanded that the persons who plotted and carried out the killing of Perumalla Pranay Kumar be awarded the death penalty. Pranay was done to death in a suspected case of honour killing at Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district of Telangana on September 14. He said attacks on SCs and tribal persons had increased since the BJP came to power at the Centre. The Commission chief directed Krishna district to submit a report on the status of cases registered under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, within a week. Elected representatives belonging to SC/ST communities from across the State had been urged to participate in it..