IPS officer Harish's kin distraught, but stay calm
If I cry it would be like insulting him. I am very proud of my brother that he served as IPS officer: Sister
Bengaluru: The body of the IPS officer Harish N., who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Thursday at the Egmore Police Officer's Mess in Chennai, was brought to Bengaluru on Friday night. After post-mortem at the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital in Park Town in Chennai on Friday the body was brought in an ambulance by road, accompanied with a DySP rank officer, two inspectors and two sub-inspectors from the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption, Tamil Nadu.
The postmortem was over by 1 p.m. and the ambulance started from Chennai around 1.30 p.m. and reached the family's residence at Manjunath Nagar in Rajajinagar around 9 pm, where hundreds of friends, family members and neighbours had already gathered to get a final glimpse of the IPS officer.
“I will not cry anymore for him. If I cry it would be like insulting him. I am very proud of my brother that he served as an IPS officer for his country. Look at the people gathered around here at our house. Back at our village, thousands of them are still waiting since Thursday after hearing the news of his demise,” said Poornima, Harish's immediate sister, to the local representatives who had come to console her.
Poornima had reached a state where she had no more tears to shed, and started talking to everybody around about how determined and confident her brother was, and shared each moments with him whichever ran in her mind. Younger sister, Asha and mother Shivamma were inconsolable, while Harish's father Nagaraj was trying hard not to break down and was consoling others not to cry.
District In-Charge minister K.J. George visited the family and offered his condolence. “We have lost such a good police officer at a very young age and at this time, we can understand what the family is going through. We will extend all our support to the family members and we are there by their side,” George told reporters condoling the death the officer.
DG-IGP Om Prakash along with the city police commissioner N.S. Megharikh and other senior police officers also came to see the body and offered their condolences to the family members. Two of his IPS batch-mate officers were also seen at the time when the officer's body arrived. Several other MLAs and local leaders visited the house to pay homage - among them were Rajajinagar constituency MLA S.Suresh Kumar, Mahalakshmi Layout MLA N L Narendra Babu, and others. The body will be kept for the public to pay homage until late Saturday morning, after which the final rites will be done, said a relative who was moderating the crowd.