HYDERABAD: BJP state secretary M Raghunandan Rao on Tuesday requested the DGP to order an inquiry into the failure of police officers on duty during the last three days of elections to the Dubbaka Assembly constituency to control the alleged distribution of money by BR's candidate Kotha Prabhakar Reddy and BR's sarpanches.
Raghunandan Rao alleged that the police officers were acting on the instructions of former minister T Harish Rao and Prabhakar Reddy.
Whenever BJP activists filed complaints, the police informed local BRS leaders and tried to dissuade the complainants by stating that Section 144 was in force, the former MLA alleged.
The officers named in Raghunandan Rao’s letter are Siddipet Police Commissioner N Swetha, Additional DCP Srinivas Rao; Additional DCP M Malla Reddy, circle inspectors of Dubbaka and Thoguta and sub-inspectors of Dubbak, Bhoompally, Mirdoddi, Doulatbad, Rayapole and Chegunta.