The police officer who is in charge of Chattisgarh's Bastar region--Shiv Ram Prasad Kalluri has gone on 'medical leave' over allegations of him sending threat messages from his phone to activists.
Kalluri had reportedly applied for leave for a kidney transplant. His junior Sundar Raj has been asked to take charge of the Maoist insurgency-prone Bastar region, said a report on NDTV.
He was accused of threatening journalists, social activists over phone messages when he was asked to ensure security to Bastar-based social scientist/activist Bela Bhatia.
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According to reports Pyoli Swatija, a Supreme Court lawyer had sent a message to the Kalluri urging him to ensure the security of Bhatia. Pyoli alleged that after the exchange of a couple of messages, Kalluri sent a response saying "F.U." The matter grabbed eyeballs after she made the screenshots of the correspondence public on her Facebook wall.
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Earlier this month, a group of men had threatened to burn down Bhatia's house if she did not leave Bastar. The group of violent protestors also intimidated her landlady.
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Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh met Bhatia a day after messages from across the country that stormed the top cop-- and were replied to in a threatening, abusive manner-- were made public.
