After EC transfers 13 cops, BSP Chief R S Praveen Kumar calls out Asifabad SP for ‘ties with BRS MLA’

Hyderabad: A day after the Election Commission transferred 13 cops, one IAS officer, and four district collectors in Telangana, IPS officer turned politician RS Praveen Kumar has called out Asifabad Komuram Bheem district Superintendent of Police for having close ties with Sirpur MLA Konappa.

This is the same BRS MLA whose brother’s henchmen beat up a women forest officer on duty.

“I immensely thank the Election Commission for initiating steps to ensure fairness in the upcoming elections in Telangana. However, I am surprised how the Election Commission missed out on the Superintendent of Police, Asifabad-Komuram Bheem District. While I have nothing against him, but the manner he was brought in by abruptly transferring a tough officer, Kalmeshwar, IPS at the behest of Sirpur MLA Konappa is raising a lot of eyebrows,” he wrote on social media.

He said the police officer or any officer for that matter in a high position should not only maintain utmost integrity but also appear transparent. “If the district SP goes to a private trust, (Koneru Konappa Trust) owned by MLA which is built on the government land subverting rules and felicitates MLA in public gaze and serves food there, what kind of neutrality can we expect in the elections? While MLA’s family is actively involved in illegal Satta(Matka) and other illegal activities not even one case has been booked against the culprits so far despite complaints to local police, how can a common man gather the strength to go to the police station?” he asked

SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act was recklessly used against political opponents in this district, at the behest of MLA. “ Three innocent student volunteers of Delhi University got kidnapped and thrashed by the MLA’s followers for no reason and it took almost 24 hours to register FIR in Kagaznagar Rural PS I had to talk to three senior-most IPS officers for that and the police allowed the culprits to surrender after 72 hours! Most of the SHOs were appointed here after they produced the letters of endorsement of the sitting MLA! Can they be fair and neutral or will they show loyalty to their benefactor? We ( referring to his party BSP) are going to lodge a formal complaint with CEO, Telangana, and ECI to replace SP Asifabad with a neutral officer with immediate effect,” he said.

The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered the transfer of several top police and administrative officers, including 25 police commissioners and superintendents of police, nine district magistrates and four secretaries and special secretaries, in the five poll-going states after finding laxity in their work, sources said. During a review, the EC found that the performance of some officers was "unsatisfactory" and they were found "complacent, if not complicit" in various matters, including the illegal supply of liquor as a possible poll inducement

Following the transfers, the Telangana state government has to submit names of officials who need to be posted as Hyderabad, Warangal, and Nizamabad Commissioners, and 10 Superintendents of Police.