Are These Pictures A Lie, Mr DGP?

When asked about the large scale vandalism done by AP police at the old Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) premises, the office of Andhra Pradesh Director-General of Police JV Ramudu on Wednesday brushed them aside terming the news baseless and factually incorrect.

The SIB building which was occupied by the AP Greyhounds was recently allotted to Telangana chief minister KCR’s visitors and security officials. The AP police vacated the building but only after a revenge show there, practically making the office unusable by removing doors, windows and rendering the electrical wiring useless by cutting it randomly. Pictures of vandalism were all over papers yesterday, including here in Telangana Talkies. If the news is baseless, then where did the pictures come from? The AP DGP has to answer this.

The AP DGP’s office went on to say that officers who were functioning from this building had to be relocated to an ‘old, dilapidated, unused and under-repair building’, and added that all items necessary for the relocation of the office were shifted to the alternative premises after due intimation to senior officers of the Telangana police department. Speaking from Delhi, the DGP JV Ramudu himself pointed out that the building was vacated without any objection when the chief minister of Telangana requested for it. So in effect, the DGP is saying you asked for it and we gave it. Don’t ask how! In fact, even going by the rules laid down by AP Reorganization Act, whoever is vacating an office for the other state to use it are not entitled to take any stationary or furniture. So clearly the AP police broke law on at least that count. So whom is he kidding?