Telugu Desam Party MLA from Devarakadra, Sita Dayakar Reddy, who allegedly drove a woman mandal agricultural officer to commit suicide, is untraceable, said the Mahbubnagar police on Monday.

Sita Reddy is the president of the TDP’s women’s wing.

A team of Mahbubnagar police went to Hyderabad to arrest the MLA after a tip-off that she was staying in her MLA quarters, but came back empty handed after finding the place locked. Her cellphone is also switched off and her family members maintain that they are not aware of her whereabouts. Sita Reddy is learnt to have met party leader N Janardhan Reddy who advised her to surrender to police after going back to Mahbubnagar. However, till late evening, there was no sign of Sita Reddy at her quarters.

B Rajeshwari, an agriculture officer in Mahbubnagar district, committed suicide on October 14 by setting herself ablaze. In her dying statement before a Magistrate, Rajeshwari said that Sita Reddy, Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency member Pradip Goud and Mandal Praja Parishad member Bharati Reddy were harassing her to sanction agriculture equipment and sprinkler systems to some persons they had recommended. She said that they had warned her of dire consequences if she did not include the names they had recommended in the beneficiaries’ list.

Marikal police of Mahbubnagar district registered a case against all three persons named by Rajeshwari. While Bharati Reddy has already surrendered before Mahbubnagar SP G Sudhir Babu, both Sita Reddy and Pradip Goud are missing.

SP Babu said that Sita Reddy was not to be found at her home in Mahbubnagar nor at her MLA quarters in Hyderabad. “She is untraceable,” he said on Monday.

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