Adilabad police have invoked the PD Act against Shaik Altaf, the prime accused in the July 19 assault on forest and police personnel during a plantation drive in Echoda mandal. Altaf faces multiple charges including extortion and land encroachment.
Three officials of Cherlapalli Central Prison in Hyderabad were suspended after a remand prisoner briefly escaped while on wall-painting duty. The inmate, Shanth Kumar from Bihar, scaled the boundary wall but was soon nabbed following a swift police and jail operation
