Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi. Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi. Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today praised the “courage” of a senior Karnataka police who said AIADMK (Amma) chief V K Sasikala was getting preferential treatment in Bengaluru central prison. “We need more officers of the kind of D.Roopa, the DIG (Prisons) of Karnataka, to inspire younger generation to be like her,” Bedi, herself a former IPS officer, tweeted. Bedi, credited with ushering in jail reforms during her career, asked Roopa to “keep going strong wherever you are posted as the country needs you.

Source: Indian Express July 14, 2017 08:03 UTC