Demanding that the State government order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the death of IAS officer D.K. Ravi, Excise Department sub-inspector, Kunigal, Linge Gowda resigned from his post and set on a padayatra from Doddakoppalu village to the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru on Wednesday evening.
Mr. Gowda emailed his resignation to the Deputy Commissioner of the Excise Department in Tumakuru. He visited his friend Ravi’s grave at Doddakoppalu, paid tributes and started his padayatra.
Ravi and Mr. Gowda were both selected as sub-inspectors in the Excise Department in 2004. Both of them had worked together for two-and-a-half years.
Mr. Gowda said, “I am deeply pained by my friend’s death.”
