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Deve Gowda's 'threat' to top cop under probe
Monday November 14, 2011 12:32:13 AM,
IANS
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Row over transfer of Karnataka top cop probing graft
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Bangalore: Former
prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda's reported threat to a top police
official probing corruption charges against his son is being
probed and action will be taken once it is completed, Karnataka
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said Sunday.
The chief minister said that the police official, Jeevan Kumar
Gaonkar, an additional director general of police (ADGP), was
transferred Nov 10 from the office of Lokayukta (ombudsman) as he
felt "embarrassed" to continue investigation into charges against
Deve Gowda's son.
He denied that Gaonkar was shifted out of Lokayukta under pressure
from former chief minister B. S. Yeddyurappa.
Gaonkar was supervising investigation into corruption and illegal
lands deals cases against Yeddyurappa also.
Deve Gowda has confirmed he telephoned Gaonkar Nov 7 to convey his
unhappiness about the way probe into his son H.D. Balakrishne
Gowda, a retired Karnataka government official, was being
conduced.
Deve Gowda, however, denied that he had threatened Gaonkar.
But Gaonkar has written a letter to state Chief Secretary S.V.
Ranganath stating that Deve Gowda had accused him of being "Yeddyurappa's
slave" and "warned" that he was "mistaken if he thought
Yeddyurappa will save him".
Copies of Gaonkar's letter have been circulating in the media.
Gaonkar has been posted as ADGP, administration.
His transfer has angered Governor H. R. Bhardwaj and former
Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde.
Bhardwaj has said this will "send wrong message" while Hegde has
said that it has been done to "sabotage" probe against Yeddyurappa.
At present the Lokayukta is headless as Hegde's successor Shivaraj
V Patil quit Sep 19 following a row over owning two sites from two
housing societies in Bangalore. Hegde's five-year term ended Aug
2.
Sadananda Gowda told reporters here that Gaonkar had written to
the chief secretary "explaining his embarrassment to continue in
the post" since he had been "threatened" by politicians connected
with some sensitive case.
Though Gaonkar's letter mentions Deve Gowda, the chief minister
did not take his name preferring "a senior politician" to refer to
him.
Sadananda Gowda said Gaonkar has not filed any complaint against
anybody. However the matter "is being investigated and action will
be taken based on findings".
Police attached to Lokayukta police is probing charges that Deve
Gowda's son, Balakrishne Gowda had acquired assets worth Rs. 500
crores. The probe is on the direction of Lokayukta special court
judge N. K. Sudhindra Rao.
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