chikkaballapur it was a replay of a sequence from telugu actioncomedy gabbar singh in which police officer pavan kalyan extracted information from rowdies when they danced around six months at the manchenahalli police station in chikkaballapur district subinspector sundar did something similar but the incident came to light on wednesday after video clips of the dance went viral on social media according to sundar he got one of the accused to dance just to extract information about a few dacoities and a murder in his police station limits and neighbouring tumakuru district sundar told toi that there had been some dacoities in chikkaballapur district eight months ago and a special squad had been formed under nagaraj then circle inspector gowribidanur to investigate them he along with avinash and nagaraj found that a gang of five youths had been involved in various crimes in and around manchenahalli interrogation tactics they were nabbed and brought to the police station sundar used various interrogation tactics to elicit information about the crimes he reportedly asked them about their hobbies and one of the accused gnana prathap of cheetegere village said he enjoyed dancing when he said hed like to dance sundar agreed to it and prathap got so carried while dancing that he spilt the beans about various crimes he had committed based on the prathaps information police were able to solve eight cases including a murder in tumakuru district sundar claimed another hardcore accused praveen confessed during the dance programme that they planned to murder some police personnel to spread fear among cops all these facts were brought to the notice of higher authorities at that time police officers shot the dancing criminals on cellphones someone has released these clips after seven months just to malign mewe did not put any pressure on the accused to dance sundar said dysp chikkaballapura purushottam said he has sought details of the incident from officers and accused involved in the incident