Superintendent of Police Y.S. Ravi Kumar said on Saturday that there had been no movement of naxalites in the district in the past three months.
Mr. Kumar told presspersons here that the police launched combing operations whenever there was tip-off. But no such movement had come to the notice of the police in the past three months. The police had taken up intensive combing operations after the incident at Navur in Belthangdy taluk of Dakshina Kannada on October 8 in which an Anti-Naxalite Force (ANF) constable was killed, he said.
The police had completed investigation of athlete Prathvi Amparu suicide case. But it had sent the diary for testing to the Forensic Science Laboratory and its report was awaited. Prathvi Amparu committed suicide at the SMS Sports Hostel at Brahmavar in Udupi district on September 27.
Mr. Kumar said that the police were investigating the murder of an elderly couple, Sanjeeva Kini and Vasanthi Kini, at Parampalli under Kota police station limits in Udupi district on August 28.
