House site pattas handed over to families of Balimela martyrs after 18-year wait

Telangana Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy connected Tuesday (March 17) handed implicit location tract pattas to the families of constabulary unit who were killed successful the 2008 Balimela reservoir attack, marking the extremity of a prolonged hold for rehabilitation benefits promised to the martyrs’ kin.

At a programme held astatine the State constabulary office successful Lakdikapul, rubric deeds were distributed to 33 beneficiary families of unit who mislaid their lives successful the Maoist onslaught connected June 29, 2008. The attack, carried retired adjacent Chitrakonda successful Odisha’s Malkangiri district, resulted successful the deaths of 38 people, including 32 Greyhounds commandos, aft Maoists targeted a constabulary motorboat with gunfire and grenades, causing it to sink.