Rape accused Hyderabad inspector surrenders, taken into custody

Suspended Circle Inspector Nageshwar Rao had been booked under various charges including rape and attempt to murder, based on a complaint from the wife of a man who previously worked at the inspector’s farmhouse.

A Hyderabad police officer, who was booked for allegedly kidnapping, raping and threatening a woman, surrendered to the Rachakonda police after he remained absconding for nearly 24 hours. K Nageshwar Rao, Circle Inspector or SHO of Maredpally police station under Hyderabad police, was taken into custody by a Special Operations Team and the Vanasthalipuram police on the night of Sunday, July 10. Nageshwar Rao had been booked under various charges including rape and attempt to murder, based on a complaint from a woman whose husband was employed at Nageshwar Rao’s farmhouse. The Rachakonda police said Nageshwar Rao is being questioned, and the case is being investigated by the Vanasthalipuram Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). 

In a press release, the police had earlier said that Nageshwar Rao had arrested the woman’s husband in a case back in 2018, and later hired him as an employee at his farmhouse. According to reports, the man was arrested in a credit card scam case in 2018, and worked at the inspector’s farmhouse for nearly a year and a half, till February 2021. 

According to the complaint, on the night of July 7, Nageshwar Rao trespassed into the couple’s home in Vanasthalipuram, beat the woman up and raped her. When the husband…

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