Overview
- Police in Sangareddy arrested five on Thursday after villagers tied a 49-year-old Anganwadi teacher to a tree on Wednesday.
- The group confronted her over claims her husband, Prabhakar, took villagers’ money under a scheme called HBM Finance and failed to return it.
- After village elders helped free her, the teacher, identified as Vasanthakumari, filed a complaint and officers registered a case.
- Investigators named the accused as Outi Bandappa, Kotagiri Ramulu, Bhootala Vaidyanath, Oute Sayavva and Chakali Balamani.
- Officers are collecting statements and examining the allegations against the husband, while warning residents not to take the law into their own hands.