Circle Inspector of Police Sreemanth Illal, who was assaulted by a gang of over 40 ganja growers and smugglers near Turori and Honnali villages on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border in Bidar district late on Friday, was struggling for life at United Hospital in Kalaburagi on Saturday.
The officer, who was critically injured in the attack, was first rushed to a nearby hospital at Basavakalyan in Bidar district and later shifted to the United Hospital in Kalaburagi by 4.30 a.m. on Saturday.
As per the sources in the hospital, eight ribs of the officer were fractured, and as a result, the lung was also damaged in the assault. There were also some injuries on the head and face, which the doctors opined, were not so serious as compared to the damage inflicted on the ribs and lungs. The officer was immediately attended and put on ventilator.
