What Now! Hyderabad Commissioner Gives Notice To Sandhya Theater

In an extremely unexpected turn of events, Allu Arjun was arrested and later release on bail in connection with the Sandhya theatre case. But just when everyone started to think that this issue is sorted out, something big has happened and now. Hyderabad Police commissioner has issued a show cause notice to Sandhya theatre management in connection with the stampede incident.

The elaborate notice from the commissioner read that it has come to the notice of the undersigned that on 04-12-2024 at about 9.40 PM, a premiere show of movie "Pushpa 2" was held and huge crowd was gathered to watch the movie as well as in the anticipation of getting a glimpse of the lead actors of the said movie.

However, there was no prior intimation from the management of the Theatre or actor's team that they will be visiting the theatre. The management of the theatre has not made any additional provisions regarding security to manage the crowd and there was no separate entry or exit for the actor's team though the theatre management has prior information about their arrival.

On 4-12-2024 at about 9.30 PM, actor "Allu Arjun" along with his family and lead actress of the movie came to Sandhya 70MM Theatre with his personal security and all the people gathered there tried to enter the theatre with them.

The personal security team of the actor started pushing the public which further aggravated the situation as there was already huge gathering at the theatre. Taking advantage of this situation, large number of people along with the actor and his security team entered inside the lower balcony area of the theatre.

There was no personnel to check whether the people entering inside the theatre have valid tickets or not. In this one Smt. Mogudampalli Revathi, W/o M. Bhaskar, aged: 35 years, R/o Shalivahana Nagar, Dilsukhnagar and her son Sri Tej, aged: around 9 years, felt suffocated due to large public influx and immediately the Police personnel who were on duty pulled them out of the public from the lower balcony and one SI of Police Mrs. L Mounika along with PC Anjaneyulu performed CPR to both of them and immediately shifted them to the nearby Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital.

The Doctor of the said Hospital has informed that Smt. Mogudampalli Revathi was brought dead and her son Sri Tej was advised to be shifted to another hospital for better treatment. Immediately the boy was shifted to KIM's Hospital, Secunderabad.

This is the notice that was served to the Sandhya Theater management as the police are seeking expedient action on the same.