Bengaluru: Though it has been three days since the Madikeri Town police registered an FIR under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) against former minister K.J. George and two senior IPS officers in connection with the suicide of DySP M. K. Ganapati, the police are yet to start the investigation.
Following the court direction on Monday, the Madikeri Town police registered the FIR on Tuesday. Initially, they had treated it as an unnatural death case and had not invoked abetment of suicide. As the court directed the local police to investigate the case, the CID police who were probing the unnatural death case stopped the investigations.
It is learnt that though three days have passed after registering the FIR, the Madikeri Town police have not moved an inch on the investigation. Sources said that the Madikeri sub-inspector had not questioned even a single person in connection with the case.
There is also speculations that senior officers have directed the SI to not start the probe until the High Court passes order in the petitions filed by ADGP Ashit Mohan Prasad and IGP Pronab Mohanty, who have sought quashing of the case against them. “The investigating officer should have issued notices to the people related to the case, asking them to appear for recording their statements. Nothing has been done so far. Forget questioning the accused, not even the family members of Mr Ganapati or the staff at the lodge where the DySP committed suicide have been questioned,” an official said.
CID sources too confirmed that the local police have not sought any details of the investigation done so far in the case. “If they seek information, we will provide it. But, it is not mandatory for them to seek the details, as they could directly get a few documents, like the postmortem report, from the doctors and officials who conducted the mahazar,” a CID official said.
Further, it is learnt that the government will not issue a fresh order directing the CID to take over the case. “As the court order directs the local SI to probe the case, it is unlikely for the state government to order a CID probe again, as there are a set of legal hurdles as well. But the question is how can a sub-inspector questioned senior officers from his own department and a former minister, who were blamed by the deceased,” the official said.
