Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy and Director-General of Police (DGP) Harish Kumar Gupta appeared before Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu in New Delhi on Thursday and explained the circumstances that led to violence during the elections conducted on May 13 and its immediate aftermath in Palnadu, Annamaya, Chittoor, Guntur, Anantapur and Nandyal districts.
They were accompanied by Additional DGP (Intelligence) Kumar Vishwajeet.
An official release said the Election Commission approved the State government’s proposals to transfer Palnadu District Collector, suspend the Superintendents of Police (SP) of Palnadu and Anantapur districts, transfer Tirupati SP, suspend 12 subordinate police officials in the three districts and to set up a Special Investigation Team to probe the matter and submit an action taken report to the Election Commission in two days in each of those cases.
