The CBI, in its closure report, concluded that Deputy Superintendent of Police MK Ganapathy took his own life death due to problems in his personal life.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which has been probing the death of Deputy Superintendent of Police MK Ganapathy, has given former Congress minister KJ Geroge and two senior IPS officers a clean chit in the case. The CBI submitted a closure report to a court in Karnataka’s Madikeri on October 30 this year. However, the report 260-page report has now surfaced in the media. The CBI concluded that Ganapathy’s death was a case of suicide and that former Karnataka Home Minister KJ George and IPS officer Pranab Mohanty and AM Prakash had nothing to do with Ganapathy’s death. DySp Ganapathy was found dead at a lodge in Karnataka’s Madikeri on July 7, 2016. Ganapathy had given an interview to a local television channel on the afternoon of July 7, where he had alleged that the then Home Minister KJ Geroge and his superiors, the former Additional Director General of Police (intelligence) AM Prasad and former Lokayukta Inspector General of Police Pranab Mohanty, were harassing him constantly. Ganapathy had left behind two suicide notes, in which he had accused the trio of harassment. Investigating officials with the CBI, however, concluded that Ganapathy was under immense stress due to problems in his personal life. “He had a troubled personal life and was under severe stress and mental agony. In this process, he became very upset. A combination of these factors resulted in the suicide of MK Ganapathy,” the CBI report states. The church attack and KJ George’s alleged grudge Soon after DySp Ganapathy’s death, his family members including his wife Pavana, father Kushalappa and brother Machaiah had accused former Minister KJ Geroge of holding a grudge against Ganapathy for the arrests he had made during the 2008 Mangaluru Church attack. In September 2008, several members belonging to Bajrang Dal and Shri Rama Sene had attacked Kulshekara Church in Mangaluru. At the time, Ganapathy was the Inspector-in-charge of the investigation. The DySP had booked several members of the Christian community for rioting and violence and Ganapathy’s family had alleged that the same year, the community members had allegedly complained to KJ George and had accused Ganapathy of filing false cases against them. “These cases were withdrawn by the state government in 2011 and the entire matter was settled. The allegations that KJ Geroge held a grudge against the deceased is a far-fetched theory,” the CBI report states. The CBI also said in its report that KJ George had denied the CBI’s request to prosecute MK Ganapathy in the 2015 case, where lawyers and police officials had clashed at the City Civil Court Complex in Bengaluru. The investigators also stated that MK Ganapathy was found to have deliberately falsified evidence while he was serving as an inspector in the Rajagopalnagar police station. At the time, an internal probe had found that Ganapathy had allegedly written a report in a theft case stating that only Rs 24,000 was recovered when the actual amount was Rs 1.5 crore. “He was suspended for 30 days and a lenient view was taken where he was reinstated and his suspension was revoked. This clearly showed that KJ George did not carry a grudge against Ganapathy and rather helped him,” the CBI report adds. Earlier in 2017, the Criminal Investigation Department had probed Ganapathy’s death and had given a clean chit to all three accused. Subsequently, Ganapathy’s son Nehal had approached the Madikeri court and after multiple appeals to the High Court, finally, in September 2017 the Supreme Court had ordered a CBI probe and had ordered the agency to submit the investigation report to the Madikeri JMFC court. On October 30, the closure report was filed. On Wednesday, the court accepted the CBI’s report and closed the case.
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