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The police has launched a manhunt for a paedophile who dramatically jumped off a moving train and escaped near Vizianagaram on Friday evening. He was being brought from Orissa in connection with a case of sexual abuse of inmates of a home for destitute children in the port city of Visakhapatnam.
Railway police and the district police in Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam have been put on alert and road-blocks have been put up around Vizianagaram to trace the fugitive, P Parvi Raj.
Parvi Raj is the founder-consultant of the New Hope Trust, a voluntary organisation which runs the Yann Memorial Children's Home at Madhurawada.
Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner A K Khan suspended a sub-inspector of Town II police station, J Papa Rao, who headed the three-member escort party that was bringing the accused.
Investigation was going on to ascertain the role of the two police constables in the incident.
The 55-year-old Parvi Raj jumped out of the Puri-Tirupathi train and fled soon after it crossed Vizianagaram railway station at around 6 pm on Friday.
He was travelling in the AC II-tier coach escorted by the SI while the two constables were travelling in second class compartment.
Parvi Raj is accused of sexually assaulting orphans, street children and physically handicapped and disabled kids of the Yann Home.
The police raided the Yann Home and the residential flat of Parvi Raj at Ramakrishna beach and seized some incriminating documents and pornographic videotapes.
District Collector J S V Prasad visited the Yann Home and ordered the shifting of 33 boys lodged there to a government observation home.
The modus operandi of the accused was to lure or intimidate the inmates into having sex with him. He used to take the victims to his residential flat where they were shown pornographic books and videos. Thereafter, they were sexually assaulted by the man whom the children referred to as 'Tatagaru' (grandfather). They were given money, treated to sumptuous food and taken to movies every time they were subjected to sexual abuse.
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