Hyderabad, January 31: All India Congress Committee secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar on Monday urged the police department to initiate investigations into the alleged disappearance of 11 youth who have been missing after being taken to Goa by a recruitment agency.
Talking to media persons at Media Point on Assembly premises, the senior leader said that he had received reports of complaints from anxious parents that a private agency had taken 11 youths, including a girl to Goa on the pretext of providing them jobs.
Mr Sudhakar revealed that the youth have not returned, prompting the parents to approach the police. He strongly urged the Director General of Police to investigate the case and find about the where about of victims.
He appealed to the state police to contact their counterparts in Goa and take their help to nab the guilty. The Congress leader suspected an organised gang behind the luring of youth in the name of providing jobs.
Mr Sudhakar also took a serious note on the luring of people in the name of jobs at Bhadrachalam in Khammam district and demanded stringent action against middlemen.
He asked the police to act tough against such agencies and protect the youth lives.
Ridiculing Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu’s statement that he would launch an agitation against rampant corruption at Centre and state, Mr Sudhakar said that Mr Naidu has no moral right to speak on corruption as even his on-off-on allies, the Left parties have a published a book `Babu ka Zamana, corruption ka Khazana’ (Babu’s reign, a treasure of Corruption) and also described the former chief minister as the `King of Corruption.
INN