16 policemen from State selected for I-Day awards

The function to confer these medals will be held later.

Two officers, who have bagged the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service are G M Hayath, IGP, KSRTC, Bangalore and H C Kishore Chandra, IGP, Economic Offences, Bangalore.

Those who have bagged the Police Medal for Meritorious Service are:

K H Srinivasan, IPS, DIG and Joint Commissioner of Police, CAR, Bangalore City, Panduranga Hadu Rane, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic West), Bangalore City, K S Mohan, SP (Lokayukta), Ramanagar, S H Gangiraddi, SP, Intelligence, Belgaum, V S Prabhakar, DCP (CAR North), Bangalore, M M Mahadevaiah, DySP, Chamarajanagar Sub-division, Chandrashekar Laxman Rao Kallyan, DySP, Fingerprint Bureau, Belgaum, Yaragudi Baburaju, Police Sub-Inspector, DSA, Unit, Bellary, Ponnappa Thimmaiah Hosakalu, Reserve Sub-Inspector (RSI), V BN, KSRP, Mysore, Prabhakar Rai, (RSI), VII BN, KSRP, Mangalore (voluntarily retired on June 30, 2009), Kanakappa Durgappa Madar, Special RSI, X BN, KSRP, Shiggaon, Ramaiah N Nanjappa, Head Constable, Intelligence, Bangalore, Raveendra Shamanna, HC, Intelligence, Bangalore and M Nagarajappa, HC VIII BN, KSRP, Shimoga.