Director-General of Police Anjani Kumar on Monday felicitated five police officers from the State who have been awarded the Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation for 2023.
The five officers are Addl SP (SIB) M. Thirupathanna, Dy. SP (Civil) Intelligence R. Satyanarayana Raju, ACP (Task Force – Warangal) M. Jitender Reddy, ACP (Bodhan) K.M. Kiran Kumar and Dy SP (WSW) B Srinivasa Rao.
For Mr. Thirupathanna, it was an investigation into the riot, and murder of a person from a Scheduled Tribe in Kangti police station in Sangareddy in 2016. Mr. Raju’s best efforts were also in Sangareddy, in Ameenpur police station limits where a minor girl at an orphanage was administered drugs and sexually assaulted.