This story is from August 26, 2020

Additional SP of Jagtial district dies of Covid-19

Additional SP of Jagtial district K Dakshina Murthy died of Covid-19 on Wednesday morning. He was admitted to a hospital in Karimnagar after testing positive for the virus and passed away.
Additional SP of Jagtial district dies of Covid-19
K Dakshina Murthy
HYDERABAD: Additional SP of Jagtial district K Dakshina Murthy died of Covid-19 on Wednesday morning. He was admitted to a hospital in Karimnagar after testing positive for the virus and passed away.
IPS officer Rema Rajeswari condoled the death of Dakshina Murthy. “A sad day for TS Police. We lost a great police officer to Covid-19 today. Dakshina Murthy was a highly decorated officer.
His contribution to anti-extremist work, Medaram Jatara and policing at large will never be forgotten,” the Mahbubnagar SP said in a tweet.
Dakshina Murthy belongs to the 1989 batch of sub-inspectors and served at various places in erstwhile Warangal and Khammam districts as SI, circle inspector and DSP.
According to official sources, Dakshina Murthy suffered a heart attack at 5.30am at a hospital in Karimnagar, where he was admitted for Covid treatment. Jagtial district in-charge SP and Karimnagar police commissioner VB Kamalasan Reddy and other police officers conveyed their condolences to the family of Dakshina Murthy.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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