New Delhi, March 19 -- The Supreme Court ruled in favour of a Telangana Police Head Constable, P Srinivas, who had been denied an accelerated promotion by the state government, after he pointed out that a fellow constable, who had faced a similar Naxalite attack on a police station and performed the same duties, was given the promotion but he was not.

P Srinivas and G Venkat Reddy, both Constables, and other police personnel who were stationed at Bommalaramaram police station in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district had effectively repelled an attack by the activists of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Marxist, Leninist) on the police station on the night of January 30, 1999.

The government had issued orders for grant of accelerated promot...