Senior IPS officer Madhukar Shetty passes away
He was known as an efficient and people friendly police officer
Hyderabad, Dec. 28: Senior IPS officer and Deputy Director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad Madhukar Shetty has passed away on Friday evening after battling heart ailment at a private Hospital in Hyderabad.
He was 47 years old.
Madhukar Shetty was recently admitted to a Hyderabad hospital. It was told that he was suffering from H1N1. But later it was confirmed that he has a heart ailment for which the treatment was started at the Continental hospital in Hyderabad.
His condition deteriorated on Wednesday following which Karnataka Government sent ADGP Prathap Reddy to Hyderabad to coordinate with Hyderabad hospital to ensure best treatment to Madhukar. Telangana government also have all the possible support to give him the best possible treatment.
He was put on ECMO life support system on Thursday and he had started responding to the treatment. But he lost the battle on Friday late evening and breathed his last at around 9pm.
Madhukar Shetty, 1999 batch IPS officer is the son of well known Kannada journalist late Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty.
He was popular as an efficient, no nonsense and people friendly police officer when he served as the SP of Chikmagaluru District and Karnataka Lokayukta.
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Dalit outfits call state-wide hartal over dental student’s death
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Various Dalit organisations on Monday announced a state-wide hartal seeking justice in the death of Kannur Dental College student Nithin Raj.
The hartal will be observed on Tuesday from 6 am to 6 pm.
As many as 52 Dalit organisations, including Justice for Nithin Raj Action Council, have announced the strike.
Organisations requesting cooperation for the strike said that no vehicles will be forcibly stopped and that all essential services are exempted.
Raj, a first-year BDS student at a private dental college in Anjarakkandy in Kannur district, was found critically injured after falling from a building on April 10 and later succumbed to his injuries.
Police have registered a case against two faculty members on charges of abetment of suicide and under provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, following allegations by the student’s family that he was subjected to caste- and complexion-based harassment.
Kerala Pinnokka Samudaya Munnani (KPSM), one of the organisations supporting the hartal, alleged in a statement that police had shown apathy in the investigation and were attempting to protect the accused in the case.
KPSM state president K V Padmanabhan and general secretary S Anwar alleged that the probe into Raj’s death was being deliberately misdirected and delayed.
While the family has firmly alleged that caste discrimination and mental harassment by faculty members led to the student’s death, police were attempting to divert the investigation towards loan app borrowings, they claimed.
The organisation alleged that this was a planned move to shield the real accused.
KPSM further alleged that by deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused teachers, police enabled them to secure anticipatory bail.
They said there was no confidence in the present police investigation and demanded that the case be handed over to an independent agency at the earliest.
