The slain sub-inspector had come up the hard way. Jagadish had joined the Police Department as a constable in 2006.
He passed the sub-inspector selection examination in 2010.
His father had served as an assistant sub-inspector and had taken voluntary retirement.
A Bachelor of Arts and law graduate, Jagadish was from Mallapura village on the outskirts of the city. He had served as PSI at Kolar in the Traffic Department for one-and-a-half years before being transferred to Doddaballapura in July 2014.
Family
He leaves behind his wife and a three-and-a-half month-old daughter, who live in Doddaballapura police quarters.