Bengaluru: Upset over the state intelligence wing’s failure in providing information in advance about the shock raids on state power minister D.K.Shivakumar, the Chief Minister is said to have taken the head of the intelligence wing, DGP Ashit Mohan Prasad, to task. CM Siddaramaiah questioned Mr. Prasad on why the intelligence wing did not have information about the IT department officials bringing CRPF personnel during raids on the energy minister’s residence and other places. “They were camping in the city for nearly 10 days and there is absolutely no information about it to the intelligence wing. If not such important information, what intelligence does your staff gather,” he reportedly asked Mr. Prasad.
The CM reportedly questioned Mr. Prasad on whether the officials in the wing were "even really working" and "what was the necessity of having an intelligence wing, when the government was not getting any inputs". The DGP, however, could not convince the CM and reportedly kept silent, as the CM spoke. DGP Prasad, who is touted as one of the favourite officers of the CM, was promoted and posted as the intelligence chief on Monday.
This is not the first time that the CM has demonstrated his unhappiness with the functioning of the intelligence wing, in the recent days. He was very upset when there was no intelligence input about the violent incidents at Managaluru and Dakshina Kannada recently.
The allegedly irregularities in the prison department had also embarrassed the government, and he had pulled up the former chief of the intelligence wing, DGP M. N. Reddi, for not bringing such information to the government’s notice in advance.
In fact, this had also led the government to transfer Mr. Reddi.
