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SI's killing sends shock waves

Staff Reporter

Misleading information by naxalite contacts resulted in his death

KHAMMAM: The death of the Palvancha rural SI, V. Ashok Kumar, in the hotel shoot out at Bhadrachalam was attributed to misleading information furnished by naxalite contacts.

It is yet to be established whether it was part of the ploy to get the two special parties on hunt for a weapons supplier into the trap.

Both the special parties - one from Palvancha and another from Visakhapatnam -- raided the hotel simultaneously. The local police, who joined the Visakhapatnam rural inspector, Rajender, in the mission, had no information about the Palvancha police waiting in the hotel room.

`Avoidable'

Ashok Kumar reached the hotel with his men without informing the police in the temple town. The death of the SI came in as a rude shock for the police department.

The death could have been avoided had there been better coordination between the police parties, said a senior officer. The Superintendent of Police, Rajiv Kumar Meena, said that sheer `misunderstanding' between the two police parties had resulted in the killing of the SI. It could not be viewed otherwise as the SI was not at all known to the inspector who led the other team.

The police Visakhapatnam district relied on the information furnished by one Allam Krishna, an activist of the Adivasi Liberation Tigers.

The body of the sub inspector was sent to his native place- Raikal in Karimnagar district. The DIG of Warangal Range, B. L. Meena, visited Bhadrachalam. He condoled the death of the SI and assured the bereaved family of all help from the department.

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