Marredpally police station attackers identified

The case is being handed over to a special team in the Central Crime Station for further investigation. “We will provide all the evidence we have got,” said North Zone DCP N. Prakash Reddy.

The Marrredpally police is still clueless about the volume of data that has been lost. Police personnel still carrying out an assessment.

Having lost several case files and FIRs, the police will have a tough time dealing with the old cases in the police station. Officials said that they are examining footage from two CCTV cameras to identify the attackers.

“Most of them are from the same locality. We can identify many of them easily. The footage will act as strong evidence,” said an official from the Marredpally police station.

Police suspects that somebody organised the mob to carry out the attack with petrol and kerosene.

“After a group of people were dispersed from the area, a large aggressive group returned to the station and started attacking the police. They were well prepared, and it is suspected that somebody organised them well,” an official said.

Hundreds of files kept in the almirah inside the station were taken out and dumped outside the station by the rioters and set on fire. Very few bundles of files were left intact after the attack.

While cops could retrieve the hard discs from a few damaged computers, the burnt files can never be retrieved.

Senior officials are concerned that most of the files have no digital back up. The files of under-investigation and undertrial cases have been lost. A majority of the FIRs have been digitally stored, police said.