Kaleshwaram SI arrested on rape charges

Senior officials who are investigating into the complaint, are learnt to have found that he had threatened at least three other female police constables and sexually assaulted them.

Warangal: The Kaleswaram police on Wednesday arrested local sub-inspector PVS Bhavani Sen Goud on charges of raping a female police constable at gunpoint in Kaleshwaram of Mahadevpur mandal in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district. Senior officials who are investigating into a complaint, are learnt to have found that he threatened at least three other female police constables and sexually assaulted them as well.

The SI was booked under Section 376(2) (A) (B), Section 324 , Section 449, Section 506 and Section 27 of the Arms Act, following a complaint by the victim. Following instructions from Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, the State government dismissed him from service under Article 311 of the Constitution. His service revolver was also confiscated.

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According to reports, SI Bhavani Sen Goud allegedly raped the female constable multiple times, threatening her with his service revolver to ensure her silence. The female constable, who had been living in fear, was planning to die by suicide due to his increased harassment. However, she gathered courage and approached Bhupalpally Superintendent of Police Kiran Khare to lodge her complaint on Tuesday.

Reacting swiftly to the complaint, the higher officials registered a case against Bhavani Sen Goud. He was arrested late on Tuesday night and taken to Bhupalpally police station for interrogation. The officials reported that the SI had indeed used his revolver to intimidate and sexually assault the constable. In her complaint, the constable informed how Goud repeatedly assaulted and raped her by threatening her with dire consequences. She stated that the SI committed the heinous crime inside the old police station building near the Lakshmi pump-house of the Kaleshwaram project.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) A Sampath Rao confirmed that an FIR was filed and that an investigation was underway. Sources said the SI also harassed other female constables at the Kaleshwaram police station. He was suspended from duties earlier while working at Rebbena police station in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district on charges of sexually assaulting a woman under the guise of assisting her with constable recruitment exam preparations in July 2022. While the trial was underway, he was posted to Kaleshwaram police station recently.