Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former assembly speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao and his family members have landed in deep soup with the police registering a number of cases against them.

For the last couple of weeks, there have been several complaints with the police from the people in Narsaraopet against Kodela and his family members accusing them of indulging in extortions and land grabbing in the town and surroundings.

Though the police did not take the complaints seriously initially as the victims could not provide proper evidences to substantiate their complaints, they started digging into the cases with the number of allegations started going up.

Moreover, the local YSR Congress party leaders also started gathering evidences against Kodela family members.

Most of the complaints of extortion and land grabbing were mainly on Kodela’s son Sivaram and daughter Poonati Vijayalakshmi.

On Wednesday, there was yet another complaint from one Dr Kalyan Chakravarthy of Meghana Hospitals at Sattenapalli police station. It was about a cheating against Kodela’s daughter Vijayalakshmi.

Apparently, Vijayalakshmi had promised to secure permission to Meghana Hospitals for taking up Arogya Sri cases. For that, she had collected Rs 4 lakh from Dr Kalyan. However, he could not get the permission.

With this, the police filed a cheating case against Vijayalakshmi along with her followers.