Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Aug 24: As all the five arrested accused in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case will be produced in court today, there has been no news about any major breakthrough in the case.
The fact that a number of senior CID officials swooped down on the town to investigate this case on Tuesday gave confusing signals. Was it because the department has not been able to get a clearer picture of what happened, or whether they have hit a jackpot of information about the murder? The officials of the department are tight-lipped now.
CID additional director general of police, Pratap Reddy, inspector general of police, H C Kishore Chandra, superintendent of police, Dr D C Rajappa along with DIG, Sonia Narang, gave impetus to the ongoing investigation by collecting additional information from the family members of Bhaskar Shetty.
Bhaskar Shetty
As CID arguably has suspicion about the Homakunda in the house of Niranjan Bhat at Nandalike, extensive checking is going on there.
Secret meetings
The team has also visited the banks of rivulets where Niranjan claims to have thrown the ash and other by products at the end of the Homa. CID officials have been holding meetings secretly to exchange ideas and information, with the stated purpose of cracking the case at the earliest.
As senior officials have entered the fray there is a chance that the case might reach its logical conclusion. But initial negligence of police and lapses in their investigation have put undue stress on the process of investigation, it is gathered.
In the meanwhile, it is learnt that CID deputy inspector general of police, Sonia Narang, gave a dressing down to police personnel of Manipal station for their lackadaisical approach to the case in initial stages. Narang continued to stay put in the city on second day on Tuesday, and in all likelihood, she may remain here on the third day on Wednesday to oversee production of the accused in the court.
Hearing of the application made by the police for permission to match DNA of Bhaskar Shetty by collecting DNA of his mother and brothers is also coming up in the court today.