A Yellaiah purportedly wrote a suicide note addressing chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in which he mentioned that the burden to pay the pending traffic challans forced him to the suicide. Yellaiah’s outstanding penalty totalled Rs 8,945. He was also supposed to clear the penalty court would have imposed for the March 6 drunken driving case. Police, however, denied Yellaiah’s charge and said they never look at pending challans during drunken driving checks.
After his bike was seized on March 6 evening, Yellaiah consumed pesticide and returned to his house in Chintal Basti in Saidabad at 8 pm in a semi-conscious condition.
“We shifted him to Owaisi hospital where he was declared dead by the doctors. We found a suicide note in his wallet. In the suicide note, my husband mentioned that a traffic challan was issued against him and fearing that his bike will not be returned, he had decided to end his life,” Yellaiah’s wife Mallamma mentioned in her complaint to the police.
Yellaiah had to appear before court after counselling: Cops
The suicide note, addressed to KCR and IT minister KT Rama Rao, reportedly requests them to look at the financial burden on the poor in paying the traffic challans.
Based on Mallamma’s complaint, Saidabad police registered a suspicious death case under section 174 of CrPC. After the postmortem on Tuesday, the body was handed over to the family and final rites were performed at Yellaiah’s native place of Neredikomma in Nalgonda district.
It all began when Mir Chowk traffic police were conducting a drunken driving check at Nagarjuna Colony in Champapet. A police team intercepted Yellaiah at 4.42 pm.
“When our team checked the blood alcohol concentration of Yellaiah, the reading showed 155 mg/100 ml, which was beyond the permitted limit of 30 mg/100 ml. A drunken driving case was booked against Yellaiah and the vehicle was seized and an acknowledgement slip was issued to him,” Mir Chowk traffic inspector P Pramod Kumar said. Yellaiah was to attend a counselling session conducted by traffic police and then appear before the court.
Before he was caught for the third time on March 6, police said 23 traffic challans had been pending against the bike registered in the name of Yellaiah between October 23, 2018, and January 17, 2023.
The reasons cited were: driving without a helmet, driving without a licence, wrong parking, triple riding, etc.
Meanwhile, the traffic inspector has reiterated that cops did not broach the topic of pending challans with Yellaiah when his bike was seized during the March 6 checking.
The suicide note, addressed to KCR and IT minister KT Rama Rao, reportedly requests them to look at the financial burden on the poor in paying the traffic challans.
Based on Mallamma’s complaint, Saidabad police registered a suspicious death case under section 174 of CrPC. After the postmortem on Tuesday, the body was handed over to the family and final rites were performed at Yellaiah’s native place of Neredikomma in Nalgonda district.
It all began when Mir Chowk traffic police were conducting a drunken driving check at Nagarjuna Colony in Champapet. A police team intercepted Yellaiah at 4.42 pm.
“When our team checked the blood alcohol concentration of Yellaiah, the reading showed 155 mg/100 ml, which was beyond the permitted limit of 30 mg/100 ml. A drunken driving case was booked against Yellaiah and the vehicle was seized and an acknowledgement slip was issued to him,” Mir Chowk traffic inspector P Pramod Kumar said. Yellaiah was to attend a counselling session conducted by traffic police and then appear before the court.
Before he was caught for the third time on March 6, police said 23 traffic challans had been pending against the bike registered in the name of Yellaiah between October 23, 2018, and January 17, 2023.
The reasons cited were: driving without a helmet, driving without a licence, wrong parking, triple riding, etc.
Meanwhile, the traffic inspector has reiterated that cops did not broach the topic of pending challans with Yellaiah when his bike was seized during the March 6 checking.
