Bedi hails Karnataka cop, says country needs more of her kind
July 14, 2017  17:41
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Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today praised the "courage" of a senior Karnataka police who said AIADMK (Amma) chief V K Sasikala was getting preferential treatment in Bengaluru central prison. "We need more officers of the kind of D Roopa, the DIG (Prisons) of Karnataka, to inspire  younger generation to be like her," Bedi, herself a former IPS officer, tweeted.

"Those who have the courage to speak and write out the truth as they see knowing well that they may not get support from senior quarters," she said.

The DIG also said there was suspicion that senior jail officials had accepted Rs 2 crore as a bribe to facilitate special facilities for Sasikala, prompting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to order a high-level probe yesterday. Roopa made the allegations in a report to her superior, DGP (Prisons) H S Sathyanarayana Rao.
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