Hyderabad, Nov. 12 -- The Telangana government has cancelled the licence of Defensor Security Services and has asked the agency to cease all security operations after a guard deployed by them was arrested for the murder of a five-year-old girl in Kowkoor.

The agency's licence was cancelled on account of serious violations of the provisions of the Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, and the Telangana Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Rules, 2022, including deployment of security guards without proper police verification and mandatory training, inadequate supervision, and failure to furnish a satisfactory explanation in response to a show-cause notice.

Kowkoor murder

Security guard Vikram Kumar allegedly kidnapped the ...