DONTAPUR (Karimnagar): A bed-ridden 84-year-old Borukani Mallaiah, a resident of Dontapur village on the border of Karimnagar and Adilabad districts, has been facing harassment of a different kind from the police for the last six months.The police have been asking Mallaiah to produce a death certificate’ of his son B Rajaiah to close the theft case pending against him. However, Mallaiah says his son has been missing for 23 years.According to police reports, 22-year-old Rajaiah was arrested by the Thallamadugu (Jannaram) police in Adilabad district on April 24, 1988 for alleged involvement in a theft. After producing him in the first class magistrate’s court at Luxettipet, they shifted him to the Luxettipet sub-jail on remand."Before we reached the jail with the bail on May 24, police had kidnapped Rajaiah on a fake bail and killed him in a fake encounter with an eye on promotion in their career,” alleged Gangadhar, Rajaiah’s cousin.According to Adilabad court reports and CID enquiry reports, Rajaiah was killed in an ‘encounter’ at Akeepalli Vagu in Chennur mandal on May 26, 1988. But police claim that it was two extremists who died in cross-firing between Naxalites and the police and that Mallaiah was mistaking an extremist for his son. But Rajaiah’s family members say they had seen his photo in newspaper reports after the ‘encounter’.SI Madhukar, accused in Rajaiah’s kidnap case, was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000.Following court directions, police registered cases against the SI under IPC 302 and 420 sections. But the case pertaining to ‘encounter’ has not been proved yet. Rajaiah’s mother died 10 years ago due to dejection after her son had gone missing. Meanwhile, Mallaiah has been urging the police to bring back his son alive or dead.
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