Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy, against whom a CBI probe is pending on charges of acquiring disproportionate assets, on Monday retired from service.
While the ruling party blamed unnamed forces behind the arson, all opposition parties hit out at the Jagan Mohan Reddy government over its "gross failure" in controlling the situation.
The beleaguered chief of Andhra Pradesh Police V Dinesh Reddy appears to be descending into deeper trouble. The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday formally launched its probe into his alleged disproportionate assets following a Supreme Court order.
It is now certain that the director general of Andhra Pradesh police V Dinesh Reddy is on the way out. A day after the state government made it clear that his term will not be extended when he reaches the age of superannuation on Sunday, the Central Administration Tribunal has rejected his petition challenging the state government's stand.
The Andhra Pradesh government faced a major embarrassment in the high court on Thursday when a division bench struck down the appointment of V Dinesh Reddy as the state director general of police.
Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy, against whom the Supreme Court has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in regards to his alleged assets, has said that the assets under investigation have nothing to do with him or his family.
Taking suo motu action, Andhra Pradesh police on Thursday filed two FIRs against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for allegedly making a "hate speech" against a particular community.
The hostage drama in Hyderabad involving a suspended head constable and a superintendent of police ended on a peaceful note. The state Director General of Police Dinesh Reddy intervened and successfully persuaded Head Constable Giriprasad Sharma to release SP Lakshmi Narayana. The drama ended four hours after it started.
Posters have been found on the OsmaniaUniversity campus asking youngsters to join an "armed struggle to achieve Telangana state," prompting police to launch a probe into it.
A week after the twin bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Thursday said sketches of suspects were being prepared, and he was hoping for a breakthrough.
An indefinite curfew was on Sunday clamped in some parts of the walled city in Hyderabad, following communal clashes over alleged desecration of a religious place.
Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday said the face of one of the suspects of February 21 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case in Hyderabad was clearly captured by CCTV cameras and efforts are on to identity the person.
The state-of-the-art UAV will have the capability to take photographs of anything under the thick foliage as well as record the sound signals and transmit the same to the control room almost live through satellite.
Observing that hockey need not lag so much behind cricket in terms of popularity in the country, new president of the Indian Hockey Federation V Dinesh Reddy said he will make every effort to regain lost glory in the sport.
Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy, who landed in a controversy for his remarks linking women's fashionable dresses to increase in rape cases, on Wednesday said he did not mean to degrade women and had only mentioned a "social study".
Andhra Pradesh government ON Monday appointed B Prasada Rao, an IPS officer of 1979 batch, as the Director General of Police on an ad hoc basis following retirement of incumbent V Dinesh Reddy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent a team to collect documents related to alleged disproportionate assets amassed by Andhra Pradesh police chief V Dinesh Reddy against whom an enquiry has been initiated by the agency on the directions of the Supreme Court.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday held a high-level meeting to discuss the law and order situation in view of various agitation programmes planned by pro-Telangana groups in the next few days and the strike by government employees from August 17.
Political parties and the journalists unions which kept quiet over the arrest of two reporters in connection with the report on the Director General of Police V dinesh Reddy's visit to a godman in the old city of Hyderabad have swung into action after the police booked cases against the editor and resident editor of The Hindu newspaper.
Anti-Telangana activists on Sunday held protests on railway tracks here delaying at least two long-distance trains, the police said.
GDR Software Ltd has informed BSE that the Board of Directors in its meeting held today (February 15, 2003) has decided to dispose off all the 4,99,300 equity shares (un listed) of Rs 10 each held in M/s Meditech Software Ltd.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday directed the police to observe utmost restraint in dealing with the ongoing agitation in Andhra-Rayalaseema regions.
With a decision on the Telangana issue imminent, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the situation in Andhra Pradesh is peaceful.
An interesting contest is on in Malkajgiri, the biggest Lok Sabha constituency in the country.
What initially appeared to be an innocuous visit by the state Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy to the residence of a controversial Muslim religious figure, has now turned into a full-blown confrontation between the cops and the media
The kidnapping, illegal confinement and rape of a college girl for 17 months is threatening to blow up in to a major issue in Hyderabad. The family of the hapless victim has been running form pillar to post for justice and stringent action against the perpetrator.
The Andhra Pradesh chief minister has just witnessed his state's division and the idea of leaving the Congress to launch a regional party might leave him with nothing, says Aditi Phadnis
Once the blue eyed boy of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, the ex Director General of Police Dinesh Reddy is up in arms against the CM today.
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