In further embarrassment to Telangana Rasthra Samithi Rajya Sabha MP D Srinivas, the Nizamabad police on Sunday arrested his elder son Dharmapuri Sanjay in connection with alleged sexual harassment of 11 girl students of a nursing college owned by him.
Sanjay appeared before the Nizamabad police in the morning in connection with the Nirbhaya case filed against him last week.
The police, who interrogated him for more than three hours, arrested him and produced him before the local court, which remanded him to two-week judicial custody.
On August 2, as many as 11 girls from Sanjay’s Saankari College of Nursing, lodged a complaint with home minister Naini Narasimha Reddy and director general of police M Mahender Reddy. Later, they approached the Nizamabad police.
In their complaint, the girls alleged that Sanjay was regularly misbehaving with them and making sexual advances towards them. If they refused to oblige, he allegedly abused them in foul language.
The girls also produced some text messages received by them from Sanjay as evidence. One of the messages purportedly sent by Sanjay reads, “If you want more marks, spend with me.”
The arrest came as a big shock to DS, who has been facing troubled times in the TRS ever since Nizamabad MP and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha complained to her father that he was resorting to anti-party activities and that he be sacked from the party.
Since then, Srinivas has been keeping away from the party activities.