Mysore, July 24 : An incident of a person from Kodagu district, who had provided bail to a Tibetan woman in a fake passport case, dying under mysterious circumstances, was reported in city yesterday.
The deceased Nagendra (40), was a relative of Kodagu ZP member V.P. Shashidhar, who is also the Chairman of ZP Health Standing Committee.
Nagendra had visited Erna-kulam jail in Kerala and given bail to the Tibetan woman na-med Dolma.
He was accompanied by Chandramohan, a journalist from Kushalnagar, his father-in-law Ganapathy, Jagadeesh, Shivu and Aruna, who travelled in a car.
It is reported that Dolma, a resident of Tibetan settlement in Bylakuppe and Asgar Pasha were arrested by the Kerala Police in Ernakulam while attempting to go abroad using fake passports. They were remanded to judicial custody. The Court, while granting bail to Dolma recently, had ordered that bail must be given by a person residing in Kushalnagar.
It is said that Nagendra was taken to Ernakulam by the scribe Chandramohan and others and got Dolma released on bail on Friday.
On their way back on Saturday at 2 am, Nagendra was said to be found lying motionless in the car, when they reached Ring Road in Mysore. He was immediately taken to JSS Hospital where the doctors pronounced him “brought dead.”
Chandramohan told the K.R. Police that when he called up Shashidhar and informed him about Nagendra’s death, he allegedly threatened Chandramohan and hence had to approach the Police for protection.
Shashidhar’s complaint
Shashidhar, who reached Mysore yesterday afternoon, suspected foulplay in Nagendra’s death and lodged a complaint, the suspects being Chandramohan, his father-in-law Ganapathy, Shivu, Jagadeesh, Aruna, Dolma and her husband.
Inspector Shanthamallappa, who registered a case in this regard, has taken all the seven persons into custody for interrogation.
Shashidhar had questioned the Police as follows, “What was the compulsion for Chandramohan to take Nagendra to give bail to a Tibetan woman possessing fake passport? What is the relation between the scribe Chandramohan and the Tibetan woman? How could Nagendra, a healthy man, die?”
“There are no superficial injuries on Nagendra’s body. But those who accompanied him from Kerala in the car are giving contradicting statements. Whether Nagendra’s was a natural death or was he murdered, could be ascertained only after the postmortem,” the Police said.
Scribes’ protest
Owing to the alleged misbehaviour of Dr. Kumaraswamy of JSS Hospital with the scribes and photographers who attempted to take pictures of Nagendra’s body last evening, the journalists, along with the general public, staged a protest demo.
They then relented after the Hospital’s Medical Superintendent Dr. Veerabhadrappa apologised.
