DySP death: Judicial enquiry panel to submit report soon

DHNS
October 28, 2017

Bengaluru, Oct 28: Justice K N Keshavanarayana Commission of Enquiry has almost completed the enquiry into the death of DySP M K Ganapathy.

The Commission has so for recorded the statements of 47 witnesses during the enquiry.

The state government had constituted the commission of enquiry in July 2016.

Commission sources said that only the statements of Madikeri SP P Rajendra Prasad and Police Inspector Medappa are pending.

The two officers had sought time to appear before the Commission and the next hearing has been posted to November 13.

The Commission has already received the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory on the video footage in which Ganapathy had alleged minister K J George and two IPS officers Pronab Mohanty and A M Prasad were responsible for his death.

The DVR of the CCTV footage at the Vinayaka Lodge in Madikeri, where Ganapathy was found hanging, was sent to a laboratory in Hyderabad and the report has been received.

Justice Keshavanarayana said that the enquiry report will be prepared after going through all the statements and the scientific evidence available.

He said that George and the two IPS officers have not yet been summoned for enquiry.

"The statements recorded so far and the contents of the FSL reports have not evoked the requirement of taking their statements. A final report will be submitted to the government based on the statements of witnesses and also on the FSLÂreport,'' Justice Keshavanarayana said.

The Commission sources said that the CBI has not approached them seeking any material in connection with the case so far.

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May 1,2020

Bengaluru, May 1: Karnataka has reported 11 new cases of coronavirus, taking the State's count to 576, informed the Health Department on Friday.

Out of the total COVID-19 cases found in the State, 235 people have been discharged and 22 people have died.

"11 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Karnataka from April 30, 5 pm till noon today, taking the total number of cases to 576, which includes 22 deaths and 235 discharges," said the State government COVID-19 bulletin.

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January 1,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said here on Tuesday that the State government will think about making policy on giving compensation to the families of those who have died in police firing.

Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, he said that the government withholding compensation to the families of two persons who died in police firing in the city on December 19 after a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act turned violent and even in 2006 when two persons had died in police firing at Mulky in Dakshina Kannada the then State government had not given any compensation to their families.

In the latest case, the First Information Report (FIR) has named the two persons who had died in the firing as the accused. After the incident, there were demands to provide compensation to the families of the victims.

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