DGP refutes APCLC charge

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 30. The Director-General of Police, Mr. H.J. Dora, has refuted the charge levelled by the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) and other Left parties that the police was patronising the killers of Purushotham, a civil rights activist.

Speaking to presspersons here on Thursday, Mr. Dora asserted that the police had got nothing to do with the surrendered naxalites. "We will not tolerate any illegal activity by the surrendered naxalites", Mr. Dora said when his attention was drawn to criticism that the surrendered naxals were indulging in extortion.

The DGP maintained that the APCLC was at liberty to make any sort of criticism against the police and his department was not bothered about the APCLC charges, since the organisation had lost its credibility. It was only championing the cause of extremists. Asked specifically whether Nayeemuddin, one of the alleged killers of Purushotham, was enjoying police support, Mr. Dora shot back saying that the department would never associate with someone who was an accused in killing of the former DIG, Vyas.

Asked about the continuing threat calls being made to poet Mr. Varavara Rao, the DGP said the department was also worried about the safety of the poet. He would request the Government to allot a gunman to Mr. Rao. On rehabilitation of the surrendered cadres, Mr. Dora conceded that there was some delay in the rehabilitation process.

Recently, the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, had asked all the Ministers incharge of districts to monitor the progress of rehabilitation process and submit a note to the GAD regularly so that the Cabinet could also discuss the issue regularly.

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