Bhatkal: Bhatkal town PSI Revathi Revankar tendered her resignation to the Home Minister G Parameshwara, alleging that her senior officers prevented her from discharging her duties effectively. She further said that they even tried to stop her from pursuing cases that were communal in nature.

Revathi said she was forced to quit as she alleged that Assistant Superintendent of Police Dr. Anoop Kumar Shetty was harassing her at every step. 

On June 4, she received information of beef meat that was lying near a sacred place in Nagarkatte, she alleges that the ASP prevented her from seizing it.

On July 17, a similar case was reported from Nagayakshakatte, another sacred place. Getting a whiff of her arrival, a few rightwing activists landed at the location and began protesting. She made an appeal not to protest but she further alleges that her senior, Anoop Shetty, provoked and instigated the protest even more.

In her letter, she even alleged that the senior officer tried to frame an innocent person in the Nagayakshakatte case.

The Bhatkal sub-inspector said that Raghavendra Naik belonging to a rightwing organisation openly hurled abuses at her and her colleagues for allegedly allowing cattle trafficking on August 2.

She said that despite harassment, she continued to work selflessly to ensure there was law and order as she was handling an area called Bhatkal that is communally sensitive.