Date:01/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/01/stories/2008010159510500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

‘Law and order deteriorates in State’

VIZIANAGARAM: The law and order situation in the State deteriorated, the crime rate increased and the police machinery remained defunct except toeing political line, according to Telugu Desam leader P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju. Some120 TDP workers were killed so far after the Congress came to power in 2004, he said on Monday.