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State, police taken to task over inquiry into murder case

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Saturday took to task the State Government and the Police Department for their failure to act on a complaint by a widow of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) worker seeking investigation into the death of her husband.

The petitioner Roopli Bai of Kodihalli village in Kanakapura taluk of Bangalore rural district alleged that D.K. Shivakumar, Congress MLA from Sathanur and former minister, his brother D.K. Suresh and others were involved in the murder of her husband.

She said that though she had filed a complaint with the Kanakapura police, there was no proper investigation. She urged the court to direct the police to arraign Mr. Shivakumar and Mr. Suresh.

She said she wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the case as she had no faith in the police. She filed the petition in 2004 after her husband Nagaraja Nayak was murdered on September 27, 2003. She said her husband had claimed that Mr. Shivakumar and Mr. Suresh were trying to get him killed. After her husband’s murder she had gone to the Kodihalli police to register a complaint.

Though she had named several persons in the murder, the police had not entered them in the FIR and instead entered names of their choice. She was “forced” by the police to sign a complaint in which the persons she had accused of murder did not figure. She had urged the court to direct the State to order a CBI inquiry into the murder case.

Justice Jawad Rahim criticised the Superintendent of Police of Bangalore Rural district and asked the State how it proposed to go ahead with the investigation. He said the police did not file details of investigation in the court as sought. The court adjourned further hearing to July 7 after the State Public Prosecutor promised to file a report by that date.

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