Two policemen attached to the Shivajinagar police station here were among three persons killed in a road accident at Pootalapattu town in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh early on Sunday.
Police sub-inspector Avinash and constable Anil Mulik, and driver of the vehicle Maxwell, attached to a private travel agency, died in the accident. The driver was reportedly overspeeding and is suspected to have dozed off and collided with the median while negotiating a railway underpass. Owing to the impact the car overturned and was damaged badly.
The victims were pursuing a NDPS case to track down the peddlers who had supplied marijuana to a local peddler, Syed Tousif. The 20-year-old Tousif, a labourer and resident of Yarabnagar, was arrested by inspector Ravikumar M.C., while he was selling drugs to his contacts in the area on Saturday.
