In view of the recent suicides of Telangana police SIs Ramakrishna Reddy and S Sridhar, CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy today demanded that the Telangana government order a departmental and judicial inquiry into the suicides and the conduct of the higher officials of the State police department in order to reveal the working relationship between the higher-ups and the younger SIs / recruits.
In a press meet, Reddy opined that there was a need to tackle the increasing levels of stress among junior officials in the police department. He alleged that there was too much official and political intervention in the department which was leading the higher officials to harass their juniors.
He said that the suicides of the two SIs within one month also revealed deep-rooted corruption within the department.