AP Liquor Syndicates: ACB Arrests 7 Police Officers

The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB), which coming down heavily on the liquor syndicate mafia in andhra Pradesh, is now after te police personnel who are allegedly have a nexus with the liquor mafia. More than 45 days after registering cases against liquor syndicates, ACB sleuths on Sunday acted against civil police whose names figured in the ACB report on liquor syndicates.

The ACB sleuths arrested seven police officers - two officers on special duty, a deputy superintendent of police and four inspector rank officers - in Kurnool, Warangal and Adilabad districts. While some police officers resisted the ACB action, some others named in the ACB report could not be traced as they are learnt to have fled their homes. Several other police officials, including some of SI rank, were already in ACB custody for questioning. The arrested include Ram Prasad, OSD, Kothagudem in Khammam district (formerly the DSP of Mahabubabad in Warangal) and Veereshwar Rao, former DSP of Hanamkonda in Warangal.

In Kurnool, ACB Special Investigation Team (SIT) deputy superintendent of police Sudhakar took Yemmiganur former circle inspector B Gunashekar Babu and Yemmiganur excise circle inspector Lakshminarayana into custody. They were taken to Hyderabad for further interrogation. The names of both the CIs figured in the ACB report. While Gunashekar Babu, who is now inspector at the Police Control Room in Kurnool, was picked up from police quarters, Lakshminarayana was taken into custody in Bangalore. After his name figured in the ACB report, Lakshminarayana went on leave since February 1 and has since been living in Bangalore.

Names of Yemmiganur Town SI Chandrababu and Rural SI Nallappa and excise SIs Qasim, Chandramohan and Ramanjaneyulu also figured in the ACB report. With Sunday’s arrests, all the five SIs are worried about their future. In Warangal district, raids were conducted on the police officers whose names figured in the ACB report. On being tipped off about the raids, some police officers locked and left their homes along with their family members. However, the SIT team took Subedari CI Ranadhir and Kazipet CI Vijaya Sarathi took into custody. After questioning, the two were shifted to Hyderabad where they were arrested. Mattewada CI Prabhakar Rao and former Mamunuru DSP Venkateswara Rao were also taken into custody for questioning.

In Warangal district, as many as one ASP, four DSPs, 16 CIs, 15 SIs and 70 police constables are facing charges of taking kickbacks from liquor syndicates. ACB sleuths faced some resistance when they went to the residence of Mattewada CI Prabhakar Rao. High drama prevailed at Prabhakar Rao’s residence. Prabhakar Rao threw sand in the eyes of ACB officials and ran away from his residence. However, he surrendered himself before the ACB officials later. In Adilabad district, the ACB took OSD B Uma Maheshwar and Adilabad Rural CI Sridhar Rao into custody. The ACB said the seven officials were arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC for collecting bribes from liquor syndicates.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.