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Updated - July 03, 2026 09:43 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA
The Krishna Lanka police station in Vijayawada has come under intense scrutiny in connection with the alleged custodial death of Gade Sai Krishna. | Photo Credit: File photo
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged custodial death of Gade Sai Krishna and the subsequent destruction of evidence has reportedly seized suspected human remains and other material objects from the terrace of the Krishnalanka police station premises.
The investigation team said the seized articles, including a blood-stained lathi, bones, burnt ash, a partially burnt steel wrist chain and other suspected material, have been sent to the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) for scientific examination. APFSL officials, who inspected the Krishnalanka police station, reportedly found indications that electronic evidence, including CCTV footage and other digital records covering the period from May 1 to June 1, 2026, had been destroyed.
Meanwhile, the SIT has moved a court challenging the conditional police custody granted to the suspended Circle Inspector, S. S. V. V. Nagaraju. The Second Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate Court had granted the SIT eight days’ police custody of Nagaraju, who is lodged in Rajamahendravaram Central Prison under judicial remand. The court permitted police custody from July 3 to July 10 and directed that the interrogation be videographed.
The SIT also alleged that Nagaraju failed to disclose the facts relating to Sai Krishna’s custody and instead threatened and abused his mother, G. Vijaya Lakshmi, and her relatives.
According to the investigation, Sai Krishna was arrested by the Vijayawada Task Force and the Krishnalanka police at Markapuram in the early hours of May 5 and was brought to the Krishnalanka police station at about 7 a.m. the following day. He has allegedly been missing since then.
In her complaint, G. Vijaya Lakshmi alleged that the then Krishnalanka Circle Inspector illegally detained her son, subjected him to custodial torture, murdered him and destroyed the evidence.
Published - July 03, 2026 08:10 pm IST
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