Legal experts have come down heavily on the police for not booking the three persons named by Dy.SP late M.K. Ganapathy on the charge of abetment to suicide.
Criminal lawyer C.H. Hanumantharaya said it was clear that the interview of Ganapathy was a dying declaration and it had legal sanctity. “It is a dying man saying what drove him to take the extreme step. It is a fit case to book those named in the statement for abetment to suicide,” he said.
The former Special Public Prosecutor for the incumbent government, B.T. Venkatesh, concurred with this argument. “The least that the State could have done was register a case of abetment against the three persons named. He being under treatment for depression will not explain all the allegations. They have to be probed — proved or disproved,” he said.
