Police arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly pushing his father’s dead body off of a hillock as he reportedly could not bear the funeral expenses. The Chinta Komma Dinne police under him under the Senior Citizens Act.
According to the police, Bommu Rajasekhar Reddy (24), a resident of Chinna Singanapalli of Duvvur mandal, pushed his father Bommu Chinna Pulla Reddy’s body off a cliff abutting the Kadapa-Rayachoti highway in February. The incident came to light when the police recovered the body on April 29.
The investigation trail led the police to Duvvur. Rajasekhar Reddy, who surrendered before the police on Tuesday, and explained that his father had passed away in February due to tuberculosis. He told that unable to perform the funeral rituals, he had taken the dead body in an autorickshaw and pushed it from a cliff abutting the highway.
The police booked him under the Senior Citizens Act and took him into custody. Superintendent of Police K.K.N. Anburajan said the sections of the Act would be invoked on those undermining the dignity of senior citizens.
