Overview
- Suspension followed internal and Special Branch inquiries and a factual report to the city police commissioner.
- Gold seized in a June theft case was found pawned, and investigators recovered it from a pawnbroker.
- The 9 mm service pistol remains untraced as police probe allegations it was sold after being mortgaged.
- A case has been registered and teams have seized his official and personal phones and analyzed call data since June, with the East Zone Task Force tracing transactions and leads in Kadapa.
- The issue surfaced after he failed to deposit the weapon on November 14 before bandobast duty, and he has told investigators he lost the proceeds to online betting.