Confusion in AP police rank and file

HYDERABAD: For the last few days, retired IPS officer of the 1966 batch Anjaneya Reddy is busy giving newspaper interviews. Why this sudden media interest in a superannuated cop? It's because chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has said that Anjaneya as IGP (intelligence) in 1992 had prepared a report suggesting changes in the intelligence structure of Andhra Pradesh.Therefore, according to Reddy, Anjaneya would be officially consulted on how the new anti-terrorist wing that is to be set up, will be structured.
However, on Wednesday, at a meeting at the state police headquarters, senior cops asked Aravind Rao, the present additional director-general of intelligence, as to why Anjaneya Reddy's report had not been implemented all this while. That is when Rao — who has unfettered access to the CM — blurted out that there is no such report.
Anjaneya Reddy, when contacted by TOI on Friday, said, "There is no official report. I made some study on my own at that time."
There is no explanation why he did not tell mediapersons that he had headed no official committee. Worse still, how the CM was led into believing that he authored a report.
In a way, this bizarre communication gap sums up the state of affairs in the Andhra Pradesh establishment. Total confusion abounds and as accusations fly thick and fast, the CM does not himself seem to be in a position to figure out the veracity what is told to him.
A day after the twin blasts, many TV channels and sections of the international media reported that as many as 14 live bombs had been defused by the cops. This information was sourced to the government. However, now it transpires that this was blatantly false. Authorities had given out this information based on what the cops had told them, but the truth is that only one bomb had been defused.
An unexploded bomb had been discovered when a man was stopped by the traffic police for driving on the wrong side of the road in Dilsukhnagar, downtown Hyderabad. Asked for his licence, the man pushed off leaving a bag with the cops, who kept the bag but did not bother to check its content. A few hours later, they opened the bag to find a bomb ticking away.
"Based on the information that the cops had defused 14 bombs, the CM congratulated the Hyderabad police for the wonderful job they were doing. This, even as the general public were sceptical of the
cops' work," a senior police officer told TOI.