Deputy Inspector General (Anantapur Range) A.N. Ammireddy has termed as brutal the attack on the police personnel and inflicting of bleeding injuries on them by unruly mobs during the visit of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on August 4, at Punganur in Chittoor district.
Addressing the media here on August 5 (Saturday), Mr. Ammireddy said that instead of the predetermined route, the itinerary organisers had tried to enter Punganur town. They had a tiff with the police personnel on duty and obstructed their duties, and even removed the barricades there, he added.
Mr. Ammireddy said that the police had resorted to a mild lathi-charge to control the rioters. “The mobs suddenly started hurling stones at the policemen, damaging the police vehicles and setting them on fire,” he said.
