Bengaluru: Sticking by its stand that it would not interfere in the Ganapathy suicide case, the High Court dismissed a PIL filed to direct the police to file FIR against the three mentioned by Ganapathi in his dying declaration, which was an interview to a local television channel in Madikeri.
Advocate Ranganath Reddy has filed a PIL, which has been dismissed by a bench of High Court. With this the case is slated to come up for hearing at Madikeri JMFC Court on July 18.
Ganapathy, in his television interview had held Minister K J George and senior police officials Pranob Mohanthy and A M Prasad responsible for his death.
The 51-year-old deputy superintendent of police (DySP) was found hanging by rope from a ceiling fan in a lodge room at Madikeri in Kodagu district, about 260km from Bengaluru in the old Mysuru region.