Superintendent of Police Y. Rishant Reddy on August 4 (Friday) termed the violent incidents on the outskirts of Punganur as painful.
Addressing the media after calling on the injured policemen at the Government Hospital at Punganur, he said that as many as 50 police personnel were injured, 13 of them critically, in the clashes.
Mr. Rishant Reddy said as there was no police permission for TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu to enter Punganur town, policemen numbering 400 were deployed on the bypass road and barricades were erected.
