Udupi, Aug 11: The entire First Information Report (FIR) registered in businessman Bhaskar Shetty's murder case was very weak, according to M Shantharam Shetty, an advocate representing the murdered Gulabi Shetty, the mother of Bhaskar Shetty.
The wife and son of Bhaskar Shetty
Mr. Shantharam Shetty and another advocate, Shashikanth Shetty, will be helping the Public Prosecutor in this case on the request of Gulabi Shetty.
Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Shantharam Shetty said that the entire FIR had been written in such a manner by the previous Investigation Officer as if it was intended to protect the accused in the murder case.
He questioned the manner in which the FIR was written. The FIR had limited the number of accused to only three persons — Rajeshwari, Navneet and Niranjan Bhat.
Mr. Shantharam Shetty said that a person who wrote the FIR ideally should not become the Investigation Officer in the case. But here, Manipal Inspector of Police S.V. Girish had written the FIR and had then become the Investigation Officer of the case.
But, the Investigation Officer had now been changed and the Assistant Superintendent of Police, D.P. Suman, had been made the Investigation Officer. However, this was her first posting as Additional Superintendent of Police, her experience was limited, he said.
“If proper investigation has to be done to this case, then the former Superintendent of Police, K. Annamalai, should be appointed as the Investigation Officer. He has far better grasp of local conditions and has solved many complex cases,” he said.
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