Daijiworld Media Network - Madikeri (SP)
Madikeri, Jul 9: Inspector general of police (southern range), B K Singh, said that deputy superintendent of police, M K Ganapati, was suffering from mental depression since the last two months, and that this was the root cause behind his suicide.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, he revealed that a receipt for having consulted a neurologist of AJ Hospital, Mangaluru was found in the lodge room where Ganapati stayed. He said that Ganapati, who discharged duties at Mangaluru on Wednesday, had left home on Thursday duly wearing his uniform. Later, he had hired a room at Madikeri and given interview to a local television channel.
Virajpet MLA, K G Bopaiah, wanted to know as to why was the officer deployed in the office of the inspector general at Mangaluru if he was suffering from depression. He accused a minister and two senior officers of police department of committing an officer from Kodagu. Madikeri MLA, M P Appachu Ranjan, said that the issue will be raised in the assembly session on Monday and action would be insisted against the guilty.
Ganapati's wife, Pavana, speaking to reporters here on Friday, said that her husband had discussed the issue of pressure from higher officers many a time and that he had ended his life because of this pressure. She also claimed that Ganapati's statements given to a television channel were true. About the claim of Ganapati's younger brother, M K Thammaiah, that the DySP was suffering from depression, she said she is not aware of any such ailment, adding that her husband had not been treated for depression anywhere. She also added that she does not know why family members are making these claims.
Bengaluru: DySP Ganapati's death gives rise to political mudslinging
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Jul 9: Funeral of deputy superintendent of police (DySP), Madapanda K Ganapati, who committed suicide in a lodge at Madikeri on the evening of Thursday July 7 was held at the farm house of the family at Rangasamudra, native place of Ganapati, near Kushalnagar on Friday July 8 afternoon. Before that, the body was handed over to his family members after postmortem at the district government hospital at Madikeri.
During the period the postmortem was on, BJP activists held protest in front of the hospital, demanding resignation of minister, K J George.There was delay in the mortal remains reaching the officer's native place as villagers held roadblock demanding resignations of senior police officers and minister, George. Police intervened and pacified the agitators.
At Bengaluru, Shobha Karandaje and R Ashok led a protest at Mysore Bank Circle seeking entrustment of the case to Central Bureau of Investigation and resignation of K J George. As the police officer had given interview to tv channel before ending his life, in which he had accused his seniors and K J George of harassment, the government was under compulsion to act immediately. Therefore, investigation by criminal investigation department was ordered by Thursday midnight. When the protestors tried to lay siege to the office of the director general of police, they were arrested and released later.
Even as opposition parties have launched statewide protests demanding the scalp of minister, K J George, the state government has been preparing to counter the attack. BJP state president, Yeddyurappa, leader of the opposition in the assembly, ,Jagadish Shettar, and JDS state president, H D Kumaraswamy, have demanded for the resignation of K J George.
The issue came up for discussion at the cabinet meeting. It is said that the chief minister advised party activists to jointly act by raking up the issue of RSS link to DySP, Kallappa Handibag's suicide. He said that resigning from the post just because someone has asked for it is not justified. Siddaramaiah is also understood to have advised the concerned to find out reasons for repeated incidents concerning suicides of police officers and resignation of DySP Anupama Shenoy. When home minister, Dr G Parameshwar, and director general of police, Omprakash, met the chief minister in the morning and tried to explain suicide by Ganapati as a personal matter, the chief minister asked them to look deeper into the cause of this suicide as he felt that there was something which does not meet the eye.
In the meanwhile, it is gathered that no mention has been made in the first information report registered in the police station about the role of Bengaluru Development Projects minister, K J George, intelligence bureau chief, A M Prasad, and Lokayukta inspector general of police, Pranav Mohanty, although Ganapati had mentioned these names in his suicide note and also television interview before his death. This has given rise to an impression among the people that the government is trying to shield the guilty.