Bengaluru: A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) MK Ganapathi (51) committed suicide in Mangaluru on Thursday.
He was found hanging in a Lodge - Vinayaka - in Madikeri area. The reason behind the incident is yet to be known, but sources said that he was being harassed by higher officers in the police department and a politician.
He left a suicide note blaming senior minister KJ George, his son Rana George and ADGP Intelligence AM Prasad for his death.
Ganapathi was also depressed with the state government over the issue of transfers in the department, sources said.
DG and IGP Om Prakash told the media that he has ordered an investigation into Ganapathi's suicide.
He began his career in 1991 as a sub-inspector and he served as Inspector in various police stations. He was promoted as DySP and he was unhappy over not getting a suitable posting, police said.
He was suspended when he was the Inspector of Rajagopala Nagar Police station in Bengaluru for allegedly pocketing money recovered from a thief.
He allegedly had registered a case filed by city-based businessman in 2013 last year about the theft of 1 crore rupees from a locker in the godown owned by a relative. However, in the FIR, Ganapathi had allegedly mentioned only 24,000 rupees as stolen.
Police sources informed that he faced a departmental inquiry into an alleged fake encounter in Yashvanthapura police station area.
This is the second such incident in recent past. On July 5, another DySP, Kallappa Handibag committed suicide in Belagavi after he was accused of kidnapping a man and demanding ransom.
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