Bengaluru: Was this the trigger that drove deputy superintendent of police M.K. Ganapati to suicide on July 7? The depressed police officer could be worried about the alleged leaked official letter from the DG&IGP’s office to the City Police Commissioner asking for the status report on pending departmental inquiry against him and three other officers in last year’s case of alleged misrepresentation of recovered stolen public property in Madiwala police station.
According to highly placed sources, the police chief’s office had last month shot off the letter to the commissioner asking about the status of a pending departmental enquiry against Mr Ganapati and the then police inspectors – M.L. Purushottam, Raghavendra and M.M. Prashant – in a case of alleged misrepresentation of recovered stolen public property in the Madiwala police station last year.
In May 2015, the then ACP, Madiwala, Shantha Kumar, had reportedly noticed huge discrepancies in the files of listed seized items and the items handed back to the rightful owners of the stolen property in the Madiwala police station. He had conducted an investigation and submitted a report to the DG&IGP and the then police commissioner asking for a departmental inquiry against the four officers.
“Mr Ganapati was upset about his uneasy career graph, which was allegedly marred by 18 controversies/punishments that had led to departmental inquiries and suspension orders against him. He was promoted in April this year after a delay of five years. The information about the letter may have worsened his anxiety,” said an official source.
Mr Ganapati committed suicide on July 7 in a lodge in Madikeri after making a statement to a TV channel that he faced harassment from senior officials.
