Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jul 20: The police department has informed the state government that deputy superintendent of police, M K Ganapati, had faced departmental action 18 times. Most of these punishments were minor in nature.

Ganapati, who began his career as a sub-inspector in the department in 1994, served various places including Bengaluru, Mysuru, and Mangaluru. He was acted against for intelligence goof-up, delay in investigation, indiscipline etc, sources added.

In most of the cases Ganapati was let off with memos, warnings, and calling for explanations under rule 7. However, in a case in Rajgopal Nagar in the past, considering the seriousness of the lapse, he was suspended by the then police commissioner from service for 27 days, it is gathered.

In 2015,the then deputy commissioner of Madiwala, Shanthakumar, had reported that Madiwala station police had mismanaged gold ornaments and other things seized from the accused during the last ten years. The name of Ganapati was also found in the list of guilty policemen prepared during this period.

Two days before the suicide, Ganapati was informed by the personnel of the office of the director general of police over phone that investigation into the irregularities connected with items seized by Madiwala police was about to begin.