ADGP files complaint against Auradkar, two other officers

-Media Release

Bangalore, May 30, 2014 : P. Ravindranath, additional director general of police (ADGP) filed a complaint against Raghavendra Auradkar, city police commissioner, and two other officers on Thursday, May 29.

He also sought action against them under the SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act 1989.

In his complaint to the Cubbon Park police, Ravindranath, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste, said the three officers had committed an offence under the said Act by implicating him in a false case. The two others named in the complaint are DCP (Central) B R Ravikanthe Gowda and Sub-Inspector M S Ravi of the High Grounds police station.

 

 

Ravindranath has, in the complaint, referred to how he was “ill-treated” at the High Grounds police station soon after the alleged incident on Monday.

The complaint read, “Auradkar had practised untouchability when I asked him to allow me to sit in his car on Tuesday, when I had been to his office. He asked me not to touch him.”

DG and IGP L R Pachau refused to comment on the ADGP’s complaint.

Meanwhile, Home Minister K J George said the State government has already ordered a CID inquiry into the coffee shop incident.

While there were reports that in the wake of the controversy, the government was planning to transfer Auradkar, George said there was no such idea. However, sources said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will hold a high-level meeting on Friday on replacing Auradkar. ADGP (Law and Order) M N Reddi’s name is making the rounds for the top post.