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SP shunted by Karnataka Govt was probing ruling party MLA’s Naxalite links

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of how Bellary’s Superintendent of Police Pankaj Kumar Thakur was transferred and his entire anti-Naxalite unit shunted out after they began investigating alleged links between ruling party politicians and “pseudo Naxals”—former Naxalites who still use Naxal cover for a range of illegal activities from gun-running to extortion.

Thakur was investigating an April 3, 2006 police intelligence report from neighbouring Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh linking one of Kumaraswamy’s Bellary MLAs, N Suryanarayan Reddy, with one of the key “pseudo Naxal” gun-runners operating in Bellary, Ranga Reddy.

His second investigation was into a 300-strong mob attack on May 13, 2006, on the biggest private mineowner in Bellary, MSPL Limited.

Named in the FIR as key conspirators behind this attack was the same MLA Suryanarayan Reddy. And his close associate M P Ravi, son of senior JDS leader and current state Home Minister M P Prakash.
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