BELAGAVI: Chikkamagaluru DySP Kallappa Handibag, who went absconding after a kidnap and extortion complaint was filed against him, was found dead hanging at his wife’s grandparents’ house at Muragod village in Savadatti taluk on Tuesday.
Handibag, along with his wife Vidya and one-year-old son had come to the village in a car around 9 am. He went to take a bath around 9.30 am. When he did not return after a long time, family members knocked on the bathroom door. Getting no response, they broke the door open and found him hanging from a roof hook. He had hanged himself using his lungi.
His body was brought down and rushed to the Primary Health Centre at Savadatti. Later he was shifted to KLES hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
His wife Vidya told the media that her husband was very disturbed after an abduction case had been filed against him. He did not speak much to her during the journey but kept weeping and hugging their son, she said.
“We had stopped to have dinner at a restaurant on Monday night but he did he did not eat anything,” she added.
Handibag had been absconding after he was named as one of five persons involved in a kidnap and extortion case registered in Chikkamagaluru on Monday. Handibag had been accused of stage-managing the abduction of Tejas Gowda, who had earlier been arrested for gambling and released on bail. Tejas alleged that the police officer and others abducted him, demanding `10 lakh as ransom. It was only after the money was paid by his brother that he was released.
Police officers blame it on harassment
Tumakuru: May officers in the police department here expressed solidarity with DySP Kallappa Handibag who committed suicide on Tuesday.
They blamed it on the top brass who harass them for money to give posting and promotions.
As many as 16 PSIs of 1994 batch have been waiting for promotions for six months. In the recent transfers, they were not given any postings instead in their place, others were posted. “Although there are over 50 vacant posts of the rank of DySP, the government is not considering (filling them)”, remarked an officer from Bengaluru. “We got only one promotion for a service of over two decades and the IPS officers of our batch have taken over three promotions and have been working in the ranks of ADGP”, rued another officer. Meanwhile, many of the police officers who had missed new postings despite meeting the ‘demands of money’ are a depressed a lot. A circle police inspector had paid `9 lakh to an MLA out of `12 lakh as per a deal and his attempt to get a new posting went in vain, a source said.