Full text of the statement POCSO case complainant in Hyderabad

The mother of the victim in the POCSO case registered against Bandi Sai Bageerath issued a statement giving more details of the case and an appeal. Here is the complete and unedited text of the statement issued to the media

Hyderabad: Here is the unedited and complete text of the statement issued by the mother of the victim in the POCSO case registered against Bandi Sai Bageerath, son of the Union Minister of State for Home, Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

“Statement Issued by the Mother of the Minor Child Victim in FIR No. 684/2026 Under the POCSO Act on Bandi Bhageerath s/o Bandi Sanjay central Minister of State for Home Affairs

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This statement is being issued by a helpless mother whose minor daughter is the victim in FIR No. 684/2026 registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

While carrying unbearable emotional pain, I am consciously withholding the identity of my child in obedience to the law of this country, the provisions of the POCSO Act, and the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. My daughter deserves protection, dignity, and a future free from public humiliation.

We are an ordinary middle-class family. We are not politically powerful people. We are not influential people. We are parents who raised our daughter with dreams, values, education, and hope. Never in our worst nightmares did weimagine that one day we would have to stand before society begging institutions to protect our child and hear our cries for justice. This statement is not issued out of revenge or publicity. It is issued because silence has become more painful than speaking.

My daughter informed us that she came into contact with Mr. Bandi Bhageerath during the year 2025. What began as normal interaction slowly turned into emotional dependence through constant communication, emotional assurances, repeated persuasion, and sustained personal contact. As parents, it shatters us to say this publicly, but our daughter alleges that she was emotionally manipulated, psychologically controlled, discouraged from focusing on her studies and future, and repeatedly pressured for physical involvement despite her discomfort and resistance on several occasions.

As a mother, no words can fully describe the pain of hearing my daughter narrate incidents that allegedly occurred at different locations including apartments, private premises, and particularly during the night of 31st December 2025 and early hours of 1st January 2026 at Moinabad. My daughter disclosed that she was allegedly pressured to consume alcohol despite resistance and later subjected to inappropriate physical conduct and coercive behaviour when she was in a vulnerable condition. Every time she recalled these incidents, we saw fear, shame, and emotional collapse in her eyes. These allegations are now under investigation and we trust the law to uncover the truth.

Our family is in possession of several electronic communications, chats, and messages which, according to us, reveal repeated apologies, emotional breakdowns, admissions of causing pain, and requests for forgiveness by the accused. Some of these conversations also allegedly reveal repeated pressure for physical meetings and physical involvement. For a mother, reading those messages felt like watching my daughter’s emotional suffering unfold line by line.

We respectfully request that all such digital evidence be preserved and subjected to proper forensic examination before anything is lost or manipulated. After the relationship ended abruptly in January 2026, our daughter’s emotional condition deteriorated severely. She stopped behaving like the cheerful child we had raised. She became withdrawn, emotionally disturbed, mentally exhausted, and deeply broken. As parents, we watched our child cry silently, lose confidence, and struggle every single day. During this period, there were also communications allegedly sent by the accused in panic requesting our intervention regarding her condition. To us, those communications reflected clear awareness of the emotional damage caused to our daughter.

When we slowly gathered courage to explore legal remedies during March and April 2026, instead of support, we allegedly started facing indirect pressure, persuasion, and requests not to proceed legally. On 21st April 2026, a complaint alleging extortion and blackmail was suddenly lodged against our family by an associate connected to both sides. As ordinary citizens, we were terrified. At a time when our daughter needed emotional healing and justice, our family suddenly found itself portrayed as accused persons. We believe the timing and circumstances of this development require serious and independent scrutiny.

On 22nd April 2026, one Mr. Sangappa visited our residence claiming to represent influential persons connected to the accused side and allegedly attempted to mediate the matter. Thereafter, on 23rd April 2026, we met Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Hon’ble Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India, at his residence. As parents of a suffering child, we entered that meeting hoping for reassurance, protection, and humanity. Instead, we returned homewith fear in our hearts. Certain statements allegedly made regarding political influence, supporters, and consequences for people who “trouble” the family deeply disturbed and intimidated us. From that day onward, my daughter and our family have lived under constant fear and emotional pressure.

We respectfully request independent verification and investigation into these circumstances. On 08.05.2026, after exhausting all emotional strength left within us, our family approached Petbasheerabad Police Station seeking lawful registration of our complaint under the POCSO Act. Despite disclosing serious allegations involving a minor child, we were allegedly made to wait for more than five painful hours.

During those hours, my daughter sat there emotionally shattered while we repeatedly pleaded before authorities to hear us. We were informed about territorial jurisdiction issues and possible transfer of the complaint. Only after repeated insistence regarding Zero FIR procedure was acknowledgment allegedly issued. For a parent, those hours felt like our child’s pain itself was being weighed and questioned.

During this same period, we later discovered that FIR No. 253/2026 had already been registered at Karimnagar II Town Police Station against our family alleging extortion and blackmail. The sequence and timing of these events left us devastated and frightened. Instead of feeling protected as complainants under child protection law, we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by fear, counter-allegations, and social humiliation.

We have therefore requested preservation of CCTV footage, General Diary entries, FIR metadata, station records, complaint movement registers, and electronic evidence so that the exact chronology may emerge before the law without distortion.

One of the deepest wounds inflicted upon our family has been the alleged circulation of details capable of revealing the identity of our minor daughter. No child victim should ever suffer such secondary trauma. No child should have to fear society, whispers, public judgment, or humiliation after already enduring emotional suffering. We respectfully state that protecting the identity and dignity of child victims is not merely a legal obligation under the POCSO Act — it is a moral responsibility of society itself.

Subsequently, we understand that after recording more detailed statements, the investigating agency altered the initially invoked provisions and added graver sections under the POCSO Act. To us, this demonstrated that the matter could not simply be brushed aside as a “private issue” or “consensual fallout” as someattempted to portray. We humbly request that the investigation be allowed to proceed independently, fairly, and without intimidation, influence, or narrative manipulation from any quarter.

We further respectfully state that when FIR No. 684/2026 was initially registered, only comparatively lesser and bailable provisions were reportedly invoked despite serious allegations disclosed by a minor victim. Only later, after public concern, institutional attention, and constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), were graver non-bailable provisions reportedly added after recording a more detailed statement.

While we welcome this corrective step, our pain remains unchanged. Even today, while the investigation is incomplete and our family continues to face fear, emotional trauma, social targeting, and uncertainty, the accused Mr. Bandi Bhageerath continues to remain free. As parents, this reality breaks us every single day.

We are also deeply hurt by repeated attempts to divert attention toward technicalvdisputes relating to age documents and administrative inconsistencies. Wevcategorically state that lawful correction and harmonization procedures regardingvrecords had already been initiated much prior to the present dispute. We firmly believe that procedural discrepancies in documents cannot erase the lived suffering of a child nor defeat the statutory protections guaranteed under the POCSO Act when the cumulative material and chronology clearly indicate minority during the relevant period.

As the mother of the child victim, I wish to say with folded hands that we are not seeking media sympathy, political confrontation, or public spectacle. We are only asking for what every ordinary citizen of this country deserves — a fair investigation, protection of evidence, dignity for our daughter, and equal application of law irrespective of political influence, social status, or power.

Today, my family lives under constant fear, emotional exhaustion, and uncertainty. I therefore humbly seek protection from intimidation, coercion, social targeting, and external pressure. I request the judiciary, investigating agencies, child rights institutions, women’s commissions, and all competent authorities to ensure that the investigation proceeds independently and that every piece of evidence is preserved in accordance with law.

I also appeal to the media, social media users, civil society, and the public at large to please refrain from disclosing the identity of my daughter or circulatingany private material relating to this case. Every such act deepens the trauma of a child who is already emotionally shattered. No parent should have to watch society destroy the dignity and future of their child.

Despite everything our family has suffered, we still place our faith in the Constitution of India, the judiciary, and the rule of law. We will continue to cooperate fully with all lawful proceedings and pray that truth, fairness, and justice ultimately prevail for our daughter.

Issued By:

Mother of the Minor Child Victim

Date: 14-05-2026

Place: Hyderabad“