CHHATTISGARH EXTOP COP GETS NOTICE OVER WHATSAPP POST

The Chhattisgarh director general of police (DGP) served show cause notices to former Bastar inspector genera of police (IGP) SRP Kalluri on Saturday for attending a private function in Jagdalpur without intimating his superiors and subsequently circulating a Whatsapp post in this regard.

DGP AN Upadhyay served three notices to Kalluri, and sought responses in three days

Though Kalluri was removed from Bastar a month ago and attached to the police headquarters, he attended a pri vate function in Jagdalpur that also featured superintendents of police Indira Kalyan Elesela and RN Dash on Thursday evening.

A controversy erupted when local newspapers on Friday quoted Elesela as saying that “manvadhikaar karkartaon ko sadak par kuchal dena cha hiye… (human rights activists should be crushed on the roads).”

He also reportedly said that rights activists were “Maoist sympathisers” who should be treated like extremists.

Soon afterwards, the opposi tion raised the matter in the leg islative assembly, spurring chief minister Raman Singh to remove both Elesela and Dash from Bastar.

However, the controversy refused to die down. On Friday night, Kalluri posted a photo graph on Whatsapp that showed him posing with the two police officers. Its caption read: “Three idiots clean bowled!”

Kalluri, a controversial fig ure hailed by many for his tough stand against Bastar’s armed insurgency.