(S.Ravi Seshu)
The encounter death of the Maoist-turned- Mafia don Nayeemuddin, alias Nayeem, is shaking some top cops and politicians even though the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to look into the matter has not named anyone in the case so far.
A section of cops, who ‘used’ the renegade to eliminate Maoists, and politicians, who allegedly gave shelter to him, are coming out open to claim that they are nothing to do with the notorious criminal.
In a sharp reaction to media reporters, former Minister Uma, wife of slain Home Minister A.Madahava Reddy, called for a press conference in Bhongir in Nalgonda district, the adda of Nayeem, and made it clear that she didn’t even meet him. She and her son demanded for a judicial probe to bring out the facts of the case.
Uma went a step further and alleged that an attempt to sideline/malign her caste is on in the TRS regime. Former Andhra Pradesh police chief V Dinesh Reddy, who was projected as the top cop who had used the services of Nayeem, launched a media campaign in the last 48 hours to claim his innocence. He also said that he had not met Nayeem.
While admitting that police use surrendered Maoists as their informers to fight out Maoists, Dinesh Reddy said that he had in fact issued a memo to the Special Investigation Bureau (SIB) for nabbing the gangster. “SIB might have approached political bosses with an argument that Nayeem is giving information and he can’t be nabbed,” the ex-DGP openly said in “Live Show’ of Kommineni Srinivasa Rao in Sakshi channel on Sunday.
Dinesh Reddy, who was the DGP till September 2013, joined BJP after losing elections to Malkajgiri Lok Sabha elections in 2014 on YSR Congress Party ticket, also revealed that he wants to meet the Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao to pass on some more sensitive information.
Another senior retired police officer Sriram Tiwari who had led SIB at the peak of Left-wing violence in the erstwhile AP late 1990s, revealed that Nayeem’s services were used by police. He made it clear that the relation with him was purely professional and there was nothing personal about it. “I never met him after 2000 when I was transferred out of SIB,” he said.
Names of some more senior IPS officers and top class politicians are making rounds in social media. SIT should put a full stop these speculations by disclosing the contents of the Nayeem’s diary.
