Mangaluru: A group of advocates of Mangaluru has urged the Karnataka government to order a CBI inquiry into the suspicious death of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty.
Addressing the reporters at Patrika Bhavan on Tuesday, May 7, the Mangaluru Bar Association former president S P Chengappa said, “Though Shetty was admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad owing to a heart-related issue, the treatment given to him, was meant for H1N1 disease. He has not been given treatment for the heart-related ailment even after 36 hours of his hospitalisation. Hence, experts opine that there was medical negligence in the treatment of Shetty in Hyderabad.”
Meanwhile, Chengappa informed that the government had constituted a five-member committee of experts led by eminent cardiologists Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty and Dr. P G Girish. “The committee would file its report soon. If the report submitted by the committee is not satisfactory, the advocates of Mangaluru would hold a vehement protest”, he warned.
Recalling the assurance by Home Minister M B Patil of naming a police training centre as ‘Sri Madhukar Shetty Memorial Police Training Centre’, he said that there was no progress in the matter. Hence, the government should take all measures in this regard, he said. The government should also take up programmes that will inspire the youth to carry forward the legacy of Shetty, he stressed.
