Kodagu: A day after Mangaluru DySP M K Ganapathi committed suicide, his brother, Thammaiah, who is also a police officer rubbished the allegations that harrassment by higher officials had led his brother to end life.
DySP Ganapathi’s mortal remains being shifted to hospital
Speaking to media persons, here on Friday, Thammaiah said, “My brother was suffering from deppression. Ganapathi’s allegations are false, he was hallucinating. I know about my brother, he was upset with police department. It is wrong to say that police department harassed my brother. ” DySP’s father too said that he was being treated for depression.
Meanwhile, DySP’s wife Paavana has blamed senior cops and said that all the charges levelled by her husband were true.
Meanwhile, Home minister Parameshwara met CM and briefed him in DySP Ganapathi’s suicide. CM in a statement said, “DySP Ganapathi’s suicide is very unfortunate. CID will conduct probe on reasons cited by the officer and action will be taken after receiving probe report.
Siddaramaiah also pulled up DGP Om Prakash over the suicide of DySP and said, “Don’t you have the capacity to understand the mental condition of your officers?
State minister K J George, who has been blamed by the DySP in a interview with local channel, cried foul, denied any role in the case and said, “I have nothing to do with Ganapathi’s suicide incident. Opposition parties are unnecessarily targeting me. Ganapathi met me once after suspension, I had refused to intervene. Senior officials had suspended Ganapathi in a case. Charges against me are baseless, probe will reveal the truth.”
JD(S) supremo, Deve Gowda said, “I am pained by DySP’s suicide in Kodagu. Unfortunately Congress high command is helpless. Administrative machinery has collapsed in the state. Police department’s administrative decisions not allowing officials to function.”
The mortal remains have been shifted to district hospital and the mahajar was conducted at the presence of late DySP’s father Kushalappa. A special CID team has been formed to probe the case.
The body of M.K. Ganapathy, 51, was found hanging by rope to a ceiling fan in a lodge room. He was in uniform with service revolver around the waist. This is the second such incident this week two days after Chikkamagaluru rural deputy superintendent of police Kalappa Handibagh, 34, hanged himself at Belagavi, about 500 km from Bengaluru.
Ganapathy was transferred to Mangaluru inspector general police office in May. According to sources, Ganapathy went to Madikeri from Mangaluru earlier in the day and checked into the lodge and was seen alive in the room till afternoon. The incident came to light later when the lodge receptionist when to check for him as some police personnel came to visit him.
Incidentally, in a television interview to a local (Kannada) news channel aired in the afternoon in Kodagu district, Ganapathy had accused his senior officers of harassing him and putting pressure on him in various cases. “He (Ganapathy) declared that if anything happened to him, former state home minister K.J. George, Lokayuktha (ombudsman) IGP Pranab Mohanty and ADGP (intelligence) A.M. Prasad would be responsible.”
A 1991 batch officer of the state cadre, Ganapathy entered the police service under sports quota. He hailed from a hamlet at Siddhappur near Madikeri.
