Amaravati, Nov. 17 -- Even as the controversy around the tragic suicide of the Muslim family due to alleged harassment by the police in Nandyal started subsiding, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday came in the defense of the arrested policemen.

Condemning the outrage over the suicide, the state BJP president Somu Veerraju said that the police cannot be blamed for the death of Abdul Salaam and family. "The police have done their duty in interrogating Salaam, as he was a suspect in the theft case. Can you arrest the chief minister, if the farmers of the state commit suicide in distress?" Veerraju asked.

Auto-rickshaw driver Abdul Salam had died by suicide, along with his wife Noor Jahan, daughter Salma and son Khalandar by coming under ...