Raita Sangha suspects wrong treatment causing death of Madhukar Shetty, demands probe
Bengaluru, Dec 31: Suspecting that senior IPS officer Madhukar Shetty who is known for his honesty and integrity, might have died due to wrong treatment, Rajya Raitha Sangha leader Puttaswamy urged the state government to conduct an investigation into the death.
Speaking to reporters at Ramanagar on Monday, he said that there was a resemblance in the death of socialist leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia and Madhukar Shetty. It was said later that Lohia died due to wrong treatment. Same thing could have happened in Madhukar Shetty’s case also.
Madhukar Shetty was physically and mentally fit. It is still suspicious on how he was afflicted with H1N1. After his death, blood stains were found on the right side of the mouth and inside the nose, he said.
There is a doubt that the doctors who treated him at the hospital have treated him on H1N1 instead of treating him on heart-related disease. So, the government should initiate probe into the death of the officer.
The government should constitute a special investigating team comprising expert doctors and senior officers.
Many people including Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar expressed their suspicion on the death of Madhukar Shetty. Before destroying the evidences, the government should start investigation, he demanded.
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TMC MLA Humayun Kabir apologises for claiming 'coterie' influencing Mamata's decisions
Kolkata (PTI): Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has apologised to the party's leadership for his recent comment that a "coterie" was influencing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's key decisions.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, expressed his apology on Friday in reply to a show cause notice issued by the party's disciplinary committee.
"Yes, I have sent a reply. I will certainly follow party discipline. But I think being a person from the rural belt, not conversant with the ways of the city, I faced this situation for speaking my mind. However, I had not said anything against my party or its leadership," he told reporters.
"Our CM epitomises the spirit of 'Maa-Mati-Manush' and being a person of the grassroots level, I always stay rooted to the ground. Maybe I should have been more careful about my way of expressing," he said.
A senior member of the TMC's legislative disciplinary committee said the reply to the show cause letter was received, and a decision on it will be communicated soon.
Kabir, however, said some other TMC MPs had on earlier occasions made comments against party colleagues but were not censured.
On Thursday, he met the CM in the assembly's lobby where she had asked him to reply to the show-cause notice first.
On November 26, Kabir had said a coterie within the party was taking certain decisions to cement their position and was influencing the CM's key decisions for their short-term gains.
He had said this a day after the TMC national executive meeting where the party had categorically asked its leaders not to make comments in public against any internal decision and formed disciplinary committees at different levels.
Kabir had earlier advocated for giving more responsibility to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, reiterating that the Diamond Harbour MP was undoubtedly the number two in the party's hierarchy and those trying to undermine his influence would not succeed.
