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Former DySP seeks CBI inquiry into CM's watch row

Last Updated 06 September 2017, 18:43 IST

Former DySP Anupama Shenoy demanded a CBI inquiry on the chain of events that has connected the luxurious watch gift to the chief minister Siddaramaiah and handing over of the District Government Maternity and Children’s Hospital to BRS Ventures.

Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, the former police official asserted that she will prefer waiting for the response until January as she has written an elaborate letter to the prime minister to look into the issue at various levels that enabled massive corruption in Karnataka. She said she will fight the case by filing a private complaint if at all the Central Government does not support her fight against corruption. She said that the case is already entangled under the charges of Prevention of Corruption Act, nepotism, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. Every phase is the reflection of transgressions, she said.

She said she will approach court and appeal for the case to be handed over to CBI. The letter she wrote to the prime minister was dispatched to another department. However, she received a reply after one-and-a-half month, she said. The chief minister had submitted an affidavit to the then speaker Kagodu Thimmappa wherein he said that the price of the watch is only Rs seven lakh unlike the allegations made by the opposition that it is worth Rs 70 lakh. He said the watch was a second-hand and was gifted by one Dr Girish Chandar Varma and that Dr Varma does not have any official dealings with the government of Karnataka and any of its organisation.

She said Dr Varma is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon in NMC Healthcare, which is owned by B R Shetty. She demanded that the CBI inquiry should be held against the chief minister, Ministers R V Deshpande, Pramod Madhwaraj, Kagod Thimappa, Ramesh Kumar, Mahadevappa, T B Jayachandra and bureaucrats Rajaneesh Goyal and Shalini Rajneesh. The then Udupi deputy commissioner Venkatesh, B R Shetty and Dr Varma should also be interrogated. FIR should be registered against all these, she said.

She said all these are the beneficiaries of massive deal that has taken place and the truth will only come out following a CBI inquiry.

Regarding the plight of the policemen, she said the police are treated as slaves in the system. Their lives are tragedy due to the treatment they receive in the hierarchical structure. She said the police work hard to maintain law and order without any livelihood security. She said the CBI is also the sister concern of the police department. The charge sheet has not been filed in Handibhag suicide case and also the inquiry over DySP Ganapathy has been misleading with an abrupt ending.
 

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(Published 06 September 2017, 18:43 IST)

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