Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said to be unhappy with the slow progress in some high-profile cases, related to atrocities committed during the YCP regime, in which senior police officials and also key YCP leaders were also involved. At a recent review meeting, he has reportedly made it clear “Like them (YCP) I do not support tyranny and want to act ruthlessly. But, why not much progress in cases against the wrongdoers?”.
Realizing the error, the top police officials proposed to the government to hand over the cases of attack on Chandrababu’s house and TDP office to the CID. Further, the Madanapalle files burning case was also taken seriously and ordered to punish those responsible according to law.
It is believed that due to Mangalagiri police slow movements only key YCP leaders like Devineni Avinash and Lella Appi Reddy in the TDP office case could get anticipatory bail. Likewise, in Raghuram Krishnam Raju’s custodial torture case also, the police interrogation failed to fix up senior police officials in the case. So, immediately Prakasam SP was appointed as investigation officer in the case.
According to sources, the government is moving carefully to fix senior IPS officers, who had acted as proxy to former chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, providing shelter to criminal activities and also harassing opposition leaders. On the direction of the chief minister, police officers are on the job in collecting concrete evidence against them before taking firm action against them.
As a result, there is a shiver in the back of those who had played a key role in several vindictive actions during the previous government’s regime. It may be recalled that senior IPS officers PSR Anjaneyulu and PV Sunil Kumar, besides Additional SP Vijaypal are facing serious charges in Raghuram Krishnam Raju’s custodial torture case.
The Guntur police have registered a case against the three under the section of attempt to murder. However, as the accused are senior IPS officers and Vijaypal, who worked at the level of additional SP, did not cooperate with the investigating officer. Alarmed by this, the government reviewed with the top police officials and handed over the responsibility of investigating the case to Damodar, who is working as the SP of Prakasam district. Now it is expected that this will force Vijaypal to open his mouth.
Vijayawada ACP acted as investigating officer in Mumbai actress Kadambari Jethwani case. YCP leader Kukkala Vidyasagar, the main accused in the case, was arrested and sent to jail. The other accused are DGP rank officer PCR Anjaneyu, IG rank officer Kanti Rana Tatha and DIG rank officer Vishal Gunni, besides ACP Hanumantha Rao, CI Satyanarayana and another lawyer.
The government felt that it would be reasonable to hand them over to the CID if they were to be interrogated and prosecuted. In the CID, where an officer of the rank of Additional DG is the chief, there is no difficulty in investigating up to the IG.
