Even after carrying out investigation for seven years, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which handled the murder of Padmavati Yadav, then sitting member of Ballari City Corporation, has not been able to crack the case. It submitted a “C” report to a Ballari court recently.
Meanwhile, Subbarayadu, brother of the deceased and complainant, who has opposed the CID submitting the “C” report, has planned to approach the High Court of Karnataka seeking a thorough probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Padmavati Yadav was hacked to death on the night of February 4, 2010, by four men immediately after she alighted from the car to go to her house in MMTC Colony. Though she was rushed to hospital with injuries on the forehead, she was declared brought dead.
Gandhi Nagar police registered the case. Considering the sensitivity of the case, the State government entrusted the investigation to the CID. Though many a people were quizzed, the CID could not obtain any clues to bring the guilty to book.
The news about the death came as a shock to a majority of people who knew her family and had seen her as doing good work ever since she entered politics in 2001.
She had served as president of the erstwhile Bellary City Municipal Council for a short while.
Speaking to The Hindu , Subbarayadu said that he was awaiting the order of the Principal Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class Court to approach the High Court seeking CBI investigation.
He is also planning to lodge a complaint against the Investigating Officer and Director-General of Police, CID, accusing them of negligence.
