Sub-Inspector of Police Avinash Kashinath Yadav, attached to Shivaji Nagar station in Bengaluru, who was killed in a road accident at Puthalapattu town in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Sunday, was laid to rest with state honours on Monday at his village, Rollawadi in Basavakalyan taluk of Bidar district.
The 28-year-old Avinash Yadav, along with a police personnel and a driver, were killed in a road accident while on their way to Andhra Pradesh in connection with a drug case as the car they were travelling in rammed a divider between Chittoor and Tirupati.
A pall of gloom descended on Rollawadi village following the death of the police officer. His relatives and hundreds of people from surrounding villages reached to pay their last respects to the officer when the body reached his native by 3 a.m. on Monday.
