Sreemanth Illal, Circle Inspector of Police who was injured in an attack by a gang of ganja smugglers on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border in Bidar district on September 23, was air-lifted to Bengaluru on the morning of September 26.
He was taken to the airport in an ambulance. The roads were cleared of vehicles to facilitate the movement of the ambulance.
Dr. Umesh Jadhav, Lok Sabha member from Kalaburagi, Basavaraj Mattimadu, MLA for Gulbarga Rural, and Superintendent of Police Isha Pant were present at Kalaburagi airport when the special flight took off for Bengaluru.
