Hyderabad: ASI injured during drunk driving check dies

Mahipal Reddy had on Saturday gone to a anti-drunk drive checking spot on the Nizampet road after a car driven by a person allegedly in an inebriated condition hit a home guard.

Hyderabad: This police officer battled for his life for three days after being hit by a recklessly driven car. He might have lost that battle, succumbing to his injuries on Tuesday, but won a bigger one when his family came forward to donate his organs, enabling eight other persons to have a fresh shot at life.

The family of KPHB Assistant Sub-inspector A Mahipal Reddy, even in the deepest moments of their grief, were ready to help ‘Maro Janma’, the organ donation initiative of the Cyberabad Police, through which eight of Reddy’s organs were donated to the State government’s Jeevandan programme.

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Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar, appreciating Reddy’s family, said families of brain-dead patients should come forward and donate organs.

“Keep superstitions aside and give priority to humanity. We should draw inspiration from Mahipal Reddy’s family and donate organs,” Sajjanar said, after attending Reddy’s funeral in Kismatpur of Rangareddy district.

Officials said 138 organ donations were made in 2019 through Jeevandan, while 75 donations were made in 2020 and 38 donations made until now in 2021. Reddy’s was the latest after he succumbed to injuries he sustained on Saturday while on duty at the scene of an accident caused by a drunk car driver, Srujan.

Reddy was standing on the roadside enquiring about the accident when he was hit by a cab driver, Aslam, who was also driving recklessly at high speed. The ASI, who received severe injuries to the head, battled for three days and breathed his last late on Tuesday.
Sajjanar, paying tributes to the departed officer, assured all support and financial help to the family, particularly his children. “We will take stringent action against those responsible for his death. They will be booked and tried under culpable homicide not amounting to murder,” Sajjanar said.

The KPHB police had earlier booked a case for negligence causing injuries and have now altered the sections of the case to that of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Earlier in the day, a large number of friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at Reddy’s residence for his funeral.

Education Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy and Jeevandan in-charge Dr G Swarnalatha too were among those who reached the spot to pay their respects and console the bereaved family, including Reddy’s wife Anitha, sons Pramod and Sandeep, and father Sura Reddy.

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