Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government issued order forming a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the suicide case of a offical belonging to Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.

Chandrashekaran, an official belonging to the corporation died by suicide on May 26, at his residence in Shivamogga. In his death note, Chandrashekaran named three officials and alleged illegal loot in the corporation's funds.

CID's Appellate Police Director Manish Kharbeaker has been appointed as the head of the SIT. Shivaprakash Devaraju, Deputy Police Commissioner for the South Division Traffic in Bengaluru, Hariram Shankar, the State intelligence Police Superintendent, and Raghavendra K Hedge, the Police Superintendent of the CID, have been appointed as a members of the team.

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Tezpur (PTI): A retired Indian Air Force personnel has been arrested in Assam's Sonitpur district for alleged links with Pakistani intelligence operatives, police said on Saturday.

Additional Superintendent of Police Haricharan Bhumij said preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had shared sensitive documents and information with Pakistani operatives over social media.

Police have seized his laptop and mobile phone.

The devices have been sent for forensic examination, though some data has been deleted, Bhumij said.

The accused was a junior warrant officer in the IAF and had retired in 2002 from Tezpur’s Salonibari base.

He had later joined the electronics department of Tezpur University, but quit.

Bhumij said a case has been registered under the relevant sections of the BNS and a local court has remanded the accused to five days police custody.