Allegedly harassed by KJ George, Mangaluru DySP Ganapathi ends life

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July 7, 2016

Mangaluru, Jul 7: In the second case of suicide by a police officer in barely two days, M K?Ganapathi, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) attached to the office of the Inspector General of Police?(Western Range) in Mangaluru ended his life in Madikeri on Thursday.

ganapathiThe Kodagu SP Rajendra Prasad, who confirmed the suicide, said that Mr. Ganapathi had hanged himself, but the police are yet to ascertain other details.

However, Mr. Ganapathy, while speaking to the TV channel in Madikeri in the afternoon, accused Minister K.J. George and senior officers in the department of mental harassment. He had even cited a threat to his life in the statement, and bemoaned that despite having served with honesty, he was being hounded.

According to sources, Ganapathi went to Madikeri from Mangaluru on Thursday morning and rented a room in Vinayak Lodge near the KSRTC?bus stand. Around noon, he left the lodge in full uniform and went to a private local TV channel studio and gave an interview. During the interview, Ganapathi reportedly said that ADGP?A?M?Prasad, DIG?Pranab Mohanty and former home minister K?J?George were harassing him and he faced a life threat from them.

Later, he returned to the lodge and hung himself from a ceiling fan, still in uniform.
The incident came to light only after the police went to the lodge, but it is unclear how they found out about the suicide. He reportedly left a suicide note, in which he is said to have blamed senior politicians and senior police officers for the extreme step.

Mr. Ganapathy had a long tenure serving in various capacities in the Bengaluru city police, but it was also marked by controversies with the official accused of being involved in multiple encounters and suspended many times during the last six years.

He had served as an inspector at Yeshwantpur, Rajagopal Nagar and Madiwala police stations and had killed a rowdy sheeter, Prashanth alias Pacchi (20), in September 2010 in an encounter.

With the youth's mother taking up a legal fight saying her son was murdered, Mr. Ganapathy was suspended and a departmental inquiry later exonerated him.

He was again suspended in 2014 when he was inspector of Madiwala, when there were allegations that he had misused recovered property.

Due to these multiple inquiries and suspensions, his promotion from inspector of police to deputy superintendent of police was held up for over five years, which had caused him much heartburn, officers close to him in the department told The Hindu .

This incident comes quick on the heels of the suicide of Chikkamagaluru Rural Dy. SP Kallappa Handibag, who was accused of being involved in a kidnapping case.

His family had alleged that senior officers were harassing him and he had been fixed in the case.

Last month, Koppal Dy.SP Anupama Shenoy had quit her job, accusing the then Minister of State for Labour Parameshwar Naik of harassing her and not allowing her to discharge her duties.

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Sathish
 - 
Friday, 8 Jul 2016

George must be thrown out of the govt,

Jayaprakash
 - 
Friday, 8 Jul 2016

RIP, will pray to god whoever is responsible for your death they will die within one year.

Guruprasad
 - 
Friday, 8 Jul 2016

we lost such a good officer, all rowdy's in the department will raise.

Swathi
 - 
Friday, 8 Jul 2016

really sad to hear, RIP Sir.

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April 1,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 1: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Wednesday said that 200 people, out of 342 from the state who had attended the religious gathering at Markaz building in Delhi's Nizamuddin area, have been quarantined.

"200 people including four from Bengaluru and five from Belgaum, who participated in Tablighi Jamaat (in Delhi's Nizamuddin), have been quarantined. Total 342 people from Karnataka had attended the event," Sriramulu told reporters here.

The gatherings organised by the Tablighi Jamaat at the Markaz building in Nizamuddin came into the spotlight after multiple coronavirus cases were confirmed amongst those who attended the event held in March.
Twenty-four cases were reported from the national capital alone, apart from Telangana, the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands amongst others.

The minister had earlier said that Bengaluru Urban and Mysuru have been identified among the prime 25 COVID-19 hotspots in the country.
Chikkaballapur, since the last fourteen days, has been emerging as another hotspot, according to Sriramulu.

The total number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 1,637 after 240 new cases were reported in the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Wednesday.

The total number of active cases rose to 1466 in the country, while 132 people have been cured and discharged after receiving treatment, as of 9 am.

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June 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 21: As many as 453 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Sunday including 196 in Bengaluru alone, taking the total number of infections in Karnataka to 9,150, the Health Department said.

Five more deaths took the toll due to COVID-19 in the state to 137, a bulletin issued by the department said.

An assistant sub-inspector posted in a traffic police station died due to coronavirus on Saturday night taking the number of policemen succumbing to the contagion to three, police said.

The entire police station has been sealed for sanitisation and 25 people including five primary contacts of the deceased have been quarantined at the designated hospitals.

The total number of COVID-19 cases include 5,618 discharges, 3,391 active cases, 137 deaths, four deaths due to non-COVID causes and 77 patients admitted in Intensive Care Units.

The 196 cases confirmed in Bengaluru today is the highest single-day spike ever since the outbreak of the pandemic.

With 64 deaths so far, the city's share in the total fatalities in the state due to COVID is 47 per cent.

The five deaths reported on Sunday included three in Bengaluru.

"Yes. It is a major single day spike in Bengaluru," a health department official told P T I.

Of the total cases reported in Bengaluru, 101 are Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) and 68 are those whose contact tracing is underway.

Apart from 196 in Bengaluru, 40 cases were reported in Ballari, 39 cases each in Kalaburagi and Vijayapura, 18 each in Mysuru and Gadag, 15 in Dharwad, 14 in Bagalkote, 13 in Bidar, eight each in Davangere, Uttara Kannada and Kolar.

The five deaths reported on Sunday consisted of four men and a woman.

In view of the rising cases in Bengaluru, the Chief Secretary on Saturday formed three teams.

According to an order, Principal Secretary in Cooperative department Tushar Girinath will head the team that will ensure shifting the patients from their houses or the institutional quarantine facilities to the designated hospital.

The second team headed by the Karnataka Public Service Commission secretary G Sathyavathi will monitor the containment zone and carry out extensive surveys of people with COVID-19.

The third team is headed by Karnataka State Mineral Development Corporation managing director Naveen Raj Singh and Additional Commissioner of police Hemant Nimbalkar who will ensure social distancing at public places.

These three teams will have senior bureaucrats and top police officers as members.

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April 13,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 13: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President and former Minister D K Shivakumar has demanded resignation of Minister In-Charge of COVID-19 for his alleged irresponsible comment, despite holding a responsible post.

Mr Shivakumar's comments came after Dr Sudhakar on Sunday shared a picture of him and his children in a swimming pool, on Twitter with a caption, ''After a long time joined my children for swimming hope maintaining social distance here as well…hahaha.''

However, Dr Sudhakar deleted the tweet from his account, soon after he was criticised for sharing such a picture, when the country is facing a health crisis.

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