Ramagundam Commissioner of Police and incharge of Karimnagar V. Satyanarayana clarified that no police official had manhandled Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, as alleged, during the funeral procession of RTC driver Babu at Arepalli on Friday.
Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, he termed the charges levelled by the Karimnagar MP as false and added that the Director General of Police ordered an inquiry with an IG rank officer into the Arepalli incident. The police was coontemplating registering criminal cases against some people who had obstructed the police from doing their duty. He said the inquiry officer would decide whether to register a case against the MP or not.
Sensing law and order problems the police had denied permission to take the funeral procession to Karimnagar Bus Depot, however, the supporters of the MP had broken the security cordon and abused the police personnel on duty, but the police maintained restraint, the Police Commissioner asserted.
In the jostling, Commissioner of Police, ACP Narendar, Commander Sanjeev, and other police personnel fell down and the police personnel had formed a security ring round the Member of Parliament and escorted him to safety, he explained. The police had rescued the MP when he was suffocating due to the jostling by the crowd, the Commissioner said.
