Overview
- Former TTD assistant vigilance officer Y. Satish Kumar, the original complainant in the 2023 Parakamani foreign-currency theft case, was found dead on railway tracks near Komali village on November 14.
- Police added Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after the post-mortem and a complaint from his brother, with the FIR listing unnamed opponents in the Parakamani case as suspects.
- CID chief Ravishankar Ayyanar visited the site as investigators reconstructed the incident using dummies and drones, reviewing injury patterns and travel details from Guntakal to the spot.
- Local reports on the reconstruction noted test dummies landed closer to the tracks than the roughly 60-foot distance where Satish’s body was found, a point now under forensic scrutiny.
- The death has intensified political demands for an independent inquiry, with leaders calling for a CBI or Supreme Court–monitored probe as the reopened Parakamani case faces a court-directed CID deadline in early December.