Bengaluru: The suicidal deaths of two DySP cadre police officers within a span of a week has sent a shock waves across the political and public arena in the state.
Late M K Ganapathy
The reasons behind the death of Kallappa, attached with Chikmagaluru, and M K Ganapathy of Mangaluru, share common roots in terms of corrupt practices within the department, say many.
Based on a death note Ganapathy has left behind, a senior Congress leader, who is also a state cabinet minister is held responsible for his death. But, mystery shrouds Ganapathy’s death and it simply does not seem to die soon.
According to reliable sources, Ganapathy was under depression for the last two years, and mounting pressure from political corridors only worsened his condition. The reason traces its roots to the inglorious 2008 Mangalore Church attack incident. Highly placed police sources said, he had booked several persons who were close to the said politician from the area, prima facie. And, post the incident, the politician tried his level best to settle scores with Ganapathy, who was touted to be an ‘RSS Man’.
Adding to that, he was charged in a fake encounter case, when he was serving in Bengaluru city. He faced two prominent departmental inquiries and in both the cases he was given clean chit. He was then promoted. As per sources, the politician named in the death note reportedly did not want Ganapathy to get clean chit and in fact wanted to reopen the cases.
Predetermined attempt?
The scene of crime says that he was determined to taking extreme step and did a sort of preliminary work to get his death boosted in the media. He had booked a lodge on Thursday morning at 10.30 am, freshened up and headed straight to a local TV channel and vented out his ire against the minister and others. Interestingly, he was in civil dress when he approached the lodge first time and he came back to hotel by 2 pm in his police uniform.
Further, what is interesting is that he insisted on getting a room with ceiling fan and the staff had even questioned as to why he wanted a room with fan when the weather in Madikeri is so cold. On taking the room, he had order for liquor around 3.30 pm.
If sources are to be believed, at about 7.30 pm he had played the TV on full volume when his interview was being telecast.
Soon, the staff heard bullet shots and when they rushed to his room and broke open the door, Ganapathy was hanging from the ceiling fan.