Hyderabad: Former Andhra Pradesh minister Akhila Priya was taken into custody on Wednesday in connection with the abduction of a former badminton player Praveen Rao and his two brothers, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar said.
Priya’s husband Bhargava Ram and another relative were also detained and were being questioned by the police.
According to police sources, Praveen Rao and his two brothers, Sunil Rao and Naveen Rao, were abducted from their house in Manu Vikas Nagar colony in Secunderabad on Tuesday evening, creating a sensation in the city.
Quickly responding to the family’s complaint, police identified the two cars in which the three brothers were taken to a farmhouse in Vikarabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad and rescued them. The abductors had also taken away their phones and laptop with them.