Bengaluru: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Wednesday announced a judicial probe into alleged suicide by Deputy Superintendent of Police MK Ganapathy.
Fifty one-year-old Ganapathy committed suicide earlier in July and a note was recovered from the room which also named Karnataka Minister KJ George's son and senior officers for forcing him to take his own life.
The incident came to light later when the lodge receptionist when to check for Ganapathy as some police personnel came to visit him.
He was found in uniform with service revolver around the waist, hanging by rope to a ceiling fan in a lodge room.
Incidentally, in a television interview to a local (Kannada) news channel aired in the afternoon in Kodagu district, Ganapathy had accused his senior officers of harassing him and putting pressure on him in various cases.
He (Ganapathy) declared that if anything happened to him, former state home minister K.J. George, Lokayuktha (ombudsman) IGP Pranab Mohanty and ADGP (intelligence) AM Prasad would be responsible.
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