'They should have flown either to Tirupati or Chennai by regular flight and then taken a helicopter from there. Aircraft are much safer than helicopters.'
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 mayor of Chittoor was on Tuesday stabbed to death and her husband seriously injured by unidentified assailants, in an attack suspected to be a fallout of a family dispute, the police said.
A shocking revelation threatens to blow a hole into the Andhra Pradesh police version on the Chittoor 'encounter' that claimed 20 lives.
Terming Naxals the biggest human rights violators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have been carrying out 'offensive operations' instead of defensive against the insurgents and have achieved big successes in recent times.
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.
Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy cleared SSP Yadav's name for the top post in the Andhra Pradesh Police a day before the superannuation of Basith. Yadav supersedes two of his own batch mates from the 1972 batch of the Indian Police Service -- P V Naidu and M L Kumawat.
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.
Director general of police S S P Yadav will personally supervise the investigation, highly-placed police sources told PTI.
Some abandoned boats have been recovered in the Sir Creek area, Lt Gen S K Saini, GOC-in-C of the Army's Southern Command, told reporters at an event near Pune.
The incident took place in the morning under Jagargunda police station area when a team of the CRPF's 165th battalion was out on an anti-Maoist operation, a police official said.
Six of the arrested persons were owners of small-scale units that manufactured the components of the rocket launchers, while one was the agent of Kranthi Transport.
The Crime Investigation Department of the Andhra Pradesh police has launched its own probe into the death of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others, who were killed when the Bell-430 helicopter they were travelling in crashed at Nallamalla forest in Kurnool district on Thursday.The CID will try to find out the answers to a host of questions ranging from why an old helicopter with a history of snags was chosen for the chief minister when a new one was available.
2 senior commandos of Greyhounds were injured in the encounter that occurred during a routine combing operation.
In the letter, they said as members of the committee, it is their moral and constitutional responsibility to discuss this matter with utmost urgency and the required sincerity.
The Centre has alerted governments of nine naxal affected states in view of the death reports of top Maoist commander Kishenji and asked them to exercise maximum vigil.
The encounter took place when the troops of Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group of J&K Police launched a joint cordon and search operation at Dhari Gote Urarbagi in Desa forest belt, some 55 km from Doda town, late Monday evening, the officials said.
An overloaded boat carrying 38 people capsized on Sunday close to the 'Pavitra Sangamam'.
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.
Chairing a meeting to review the security situation in LWE-affected states, Shah said the Modi government has adopted a policy of zero tolerance against left wing extremism since 2014.
The 1986 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer has been described as a competent officer and is known for his acumen in handling disasters.
The Congress alleged that the claims made by the ED against Baghel are part of a "conspiracy" hatched by the BJP to tarnish the Chhattisgarh chief minister's image and asserted that the people of the state would give a befitting reply to such tactics in the upcoming Assembly poll.
Security has been beefed up across the country in the wake of the twin blasts in Hyderabad, with special vigil being maintained on shrines, public places and communally-sensitive areas
Andhra Pradesh government has ordered a high level probe in to the mysterious death of a State Armed Reserve force constable P Murlinath, who was sent to New Delhi at the behest of a senior Indian Police Service officer to work at the home of his daughter.
Naxals are trying to spread their tentacles across southern states, according to Andhra Pradesh police chief R R Girish Kumar."Naxals are trying to spread all over (the country). We have evidence that these people (Maoists) are trying to set up their cells even in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. We would like to sensitise the police of neighbouring states on the lurking danger so that they can have a proper action plan in place," DGP R R Girish Kumar said.
In the first fallout of the Dantewada massacre, the Central Reserve Police Force on Friday shunted out Deputy Inspector General Nalin Prabhat and two other officers for their alleged lapses.
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to make special arrangements for allowing the Friday prayers in curfew-bound areas of Hyderabad city on Friday.
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.
If the Andhra Pradesh police have their way, numerous private security agencies in the state will soon become part of its anti-terror strategy to counter the threat of terrorists. The police have sent the draft of a new legislation to the state government to make it mandatory for the private security agencies to work in coordination with the police force both in hour of crisis and otherwise.
In the wake of the recent killing of 15 police personnel by Naxals in Maharashtra, the Union Home Ministry has convened a high-level meeting on Thursday to discuss the internal security in that state as well in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.The director generals of police of the four Naxal-hit states have been summoned by the ministry for a thorough review of the prevailing situation there.
Octopus Commandos, the anti-terror wing in Andhra Pradesh, arrested four suspected Inter-Services-Intelligence agents in Tirupati on Thursday from a private hotel located on the Mangalam road on the outskirts of the temple town.
In the continuing controversy over the dates of Indian Premier League matches next month, the Andhra Pradesh police have made it clear that they can have the matches in the state only after the completion of polling on April 23.
2008 will go down in the annals of history for the lowest ever incidents of left wing violence in Andhra Pradesh as the state police and its elite wing Greyhounds managed to establish a clear upper hand over the armed rebels. State director general of police Shyamsundar Prasad Yadav in his year-end report said that there was a 30 percent decline in the extremist offences in the state over 2007.
Prasad, a 1981 batch IPS officer who is at present posted as Additional Director General of Police (Sports) in AP, has however no previous experience in the SPG, a force which was primarily created to guard the Prime Minister of the country and their immediate family members.
Indian authorities need to look into the death of journalist Hem Chandra Pandey who was killed early this month in an encounter with police in Andhra Pradesh along with top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, a top United Nations official said.
The Congress has not found the answers to many niggling questions on Telangana, but the party has already chalked out a political game-plan in the new state, says a correspondent in Delhi
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.
The Andhra Pradesh government has stressed that all the mandatory maintenance work and checks were carried out on the Bell-430 helicopter before it took off for its last journey on September 2 and crashed killing the state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.
"We demand the resignation of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah and state Director General of Police Girish Kumar in connection with Azad's murder," Maoist leader Kishenji told PTI over phone.
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