JOIN USMysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha demanded that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should drop Bengaluru Urban Development Minister K J George from the cabinet, following the charges of destruction of evidence in the death of DySP M K Ganapathi.
He hoped that the Supreme Court would shortly hand over the case to the CBI to probe. He was speaking at a district-level BJP working committee meeting at Ambedkar Bhavan in Madikeri on Saturday.
“If the chief minister respects law of the land, then he should drop George from the cabinet. Owning moral responsibility, George should his tender resignation and allow the probe into the incident in a transparent manner,” said Simha.
“A conspiracy was chalked to bury Ganapathi’s case. A report by the forensic science laboratory, submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department, notes that crucial evidence such as mobile call record details, messages and even some files stored in a hard drive and a pen drive belonging to the officer have been erased. Fingerprints from the fan were also not probed into. In the wake of the destruction of evidence, it is a murder,” he charged.
Further, he said that neither the state government nor the CID has denied the reports. The suspicion raised by the family members of the late DySP has been proved.
BJP Kodagu in-charge Udaykumar Shetty said that the BJP workers should strengthen the party at booth-level. An action plan should be prepared in the next two months to create awareness on the central-government sponsored development programs. BJP district unit president B B Bharathish was present.