CHHATTISGARH EXTOP COP GETS NOTICE OVER WHATSAPP POST
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh director general of police (DGP) served show cause notices to former Bastar inspector general 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 private 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 chahiye… (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 opposition raised the matter in the legislative 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 photograph on Whatsapp that showed him posing with the two police officers. Its caption read: “Three idiots clean bowled!”
Kalluri, a controversial figure hailed by many for his tough stand against Bastar’s armed insurgency.