Bengaluru, Dec 29: Last respects were paid to IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, who died after suffering from severe lung infection in Hyderabad.
His dead body was brought from Hyderabad by a special flight at 1:15 pm at Devanahalli International Airport and later it was kept for paying last respects at Armed Police Training Center at Yelahanka on Saturday.
Home Minister MB Patil, DGP Neelamani Raju, senior police officers Kishore Chandra, MN Reddy, AM Prasad, City Police Commissioner T Sunil Kumar, ADGP Kamal Pant, Retired DGPs RK Datta, Shankar Bidari, other senior officials, relatives and civilians paid the final respects.
According to sources from Yelahanka, the body will be taken by road to the airport at around 8:15 pm and from there it will be airlifted to Mangaluru.
Colleague sings favorite song
A colleague of the IPS officer Madhukar Shetty paid his lasts respects by singing the late officer's favorite song.
Madhukar's colleague Pavan Kumar, with teary eyes, sang the late officer's favorite Hindi song while paying last respects in Hyderabad.
His service is unprecedented
I was shocked by the death of Madhukar Shetty
I wish his family immense strength and peace in life. It is not possible to get an efficient officer this way. The service he delivered in Chikkamagaluru was unprecedented.
-Annamalai, DCP, South Division of the City
I am shaken by the death of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty. Madhukar Shetty was known for his outspoken nature. Let the Lord grant peace to His soul and give his family strength to endure
-Neelamani Raju, Director General of Police

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Rajkot (PTI): Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said.
Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added.
Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said.
Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from his mobile device, he added.
Dangariya is accused of facilitating the opening of fraudulent accounts using fake or misrepresented identities, police said.
He also assisted in structuring documentation, including Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)-related papers, to prevent transactions from being flagged as suspicious, they said.
On the other hand, Baldha opened new accounts after verification and certification processes as part of the racket, Gurjar informed.
All the three accused are in police custody, while others are in jail under judicial remand, SP said.
So far, police have identified 85 bank accounts linked to the racket with 535 complaints filed on the cyber crime portal.
The total transaction linked to the cyber fraud exceeds Rs 2,500 crore, police said.
The earlier fraud amount was pegged by police at Rs 1,500 crore.
