Daijiworld Media Network - Madikeri (SP)

Madikeri, Jan 30: The judicial commission appointed by the state government to look into the suicide of the then deputy superintendent of police (DySP), M K Ganapati, who was working in the office of the inspector general of police at Mangaluru, has served notice on Ganapati's family, asking them to submit their statements and documentary evidences relating to the suicide.

In the past, the state criminal investigation department, which conducted probe as per the government instructions into the suicide, had concluded that minister, K J George, and senior IPAS officers, Pranab Mohanty and Prasad, who were named by Ganapati in his television interview as responsible for his death, had no role in the suicide. Thereafter, Ganapati's brother, Machaiah, and father, Kushalappa, had filed petition in the Supreme Court, seeking to entrust the case for investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation.

DySP M K Ganapati

In the meantime, the family received notice from the judicial inquiry commission seeking their statements and records. In his written reply to the commission, Machaiah said that it would not be possible for him to file any statement now as Supreme Court is examining the same issue.

When approached by media persons, Machaiah said that his family has suffered injustice at the hands of the state government and that the they reposes faith on Supreme Court in getting justice.