The city police arrested three people, including a clerk at Visakhapatnam Police Commissionerate called Dasari Trinadh Kumar for allegedly fabricating documents to grant parole to a notorious criminal called Vemula Veeraswamy, the police said here today.
According to the police, Veeraswamy who is a native of Machilipatnam area in Krishna district was allegedly involved in three murder cases and one rape cases. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and was sent to the central prison in Rajahmundry in 2009.
Later, he was transferred to Kadapa central prison in 2013.
After five years of serving his term, Veeraswamy hatched a plan to come out of jail on parole and conspired with his two brothers-in-law GLVKP Rao and N Yesu, both natives of Vijayawada.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crimes) T Ravi Kumar Murthy said that Rao and Yesu approached Dasari Trinadh Kumar, a Class Two clerk at Vizag Commissionerate who looks afterparole matters.
Allegedly, Trinadh Kumar was paid Rs 35,000 for his services.
Based on the clerk's instructions, Veeraswamy applied for parole to the Superintendent of Central Prison, Kadapa, citing that his brothers-in-law Yesu and Rao were residents of Old Dairy Farm area in Vizag and they are ill.
Jail authorities forwarded his parole application to Commissioner of Police to look into the matter.
Trinadha Kumar obtained the application, created a false document and forged the signature of Inspector of Police Arilova, ACP (Madhurawada) and also Commissioner of Police (In-Charge), after which a report was sent to the central prison in Kadapa recommending that Veeraswamy's release on parole.
However, the city police came to know about the fraud on August 29 and arrested the clerk as well as two others today, the police said.
