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Highlighting of kidnaps irks DGP

Staff Reporter

Kakinada: “Give them a glass of milk, they will suspect it to be poison. They may voice their concerns in a manner of their choice. But, I will do my work”.

This was what the Director General of Police S.S.P. Yadav said in reference to the allegations made by human rights organisations that the police deliberately killed three of those accused of murdering Maneesha in Warangal district recently.

Besides, he reiterated his advice to the media to not give ‘larger-than-life publicity’ to the offenders in such cases as they might draw the wrong inferences, which could have serious consequences (as it had happened in the case of Maneesha).

Speaking to media persons at the District Police Office here on Wednesday, Mr. Yadav said kidnappings were not a new kind of offence, they existed even before the Indian Penal Code was framed but today they are unnecessarily getting highlighted, causing trauma to the victims and to some extent hampering investigations. However, this does not gloss over the responsibility of the police to curb kidnappings and they are doing exactly that with more vigour.

As regards the Maoists activities, Mr. Yadav said the entire country was alive to the threat from Maoists and all the States were cooperating to check the menace.

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