Lagacherla handcuffing incident: Farmer’s father says will protest at CM’s house

Rupla Naik along with relatives visited the Sangareddy Hospital after coming to know that Heerya Naik was rushed to the hospital following chest pain. He demanded the Chief Minister to release the farmers from jail immediately.

Sangareddy: Rupla Naik, the father of farmer Heerya Naik, who was handcuffed by the police while being taken to hospital, said they would stage a protest at the residences of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and his brother Tirupathi Reddy if anything happened to his son.

Rupla Naik along with relatives visited the Sangareddy Hospital after coming to know that Heerya Naik was rushed to the hospital following chest pain. He demanded the Chief Minister to release the farmers from jail immediately.

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Ramachandra Rao, the advocate for the Lagacherla farmers, said two more farmers who were in Sangareddy jail, were also facing health issues. While one of the farmers was suffering from fever, another farmer had also suffered a heart attack, he said, adding that the jail authorities were not disclosing anything to their relatives besides denying treatment to them. The advocate said the police did not even allow Heerya Nayak’s family members to speak with him at the Sangareddy Hospital on Thursday.

He said they would move to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking justice for the farmers. They would also move a bail petition on the grounds of ill-health in court.

Tribal leader Jaipal Naik lashed out at the Congress government for ill-treating the farmers. He demanded the government provide the best treatment to Heerya Naik and other farmers. He said the tribals would teach a lesson to the government if they continued to ill-treat the innocent tribal farmers.