Karnataka CID team questions ‘Santro Ravi’ in Mysuru
The Hindu
Karnataka Government ordered a CID probe against ‘Santro Ravi’ in the light of charges that he was influencing transfer of police officials and was working in collusion with politicians of the ruling party
Sleuths of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who took custody of alleged human trafficker K.S. Manjunath, better known as ‘Santro Ravi’, on January 17, began questioning him in Mysuru on January 18.
A team of CID officials, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Narasimha Murthy, who were handed the case file by Mysuru City Police on January 17, took custody of the suspect after filing a petition in a city court.
The court has given custody of ‘Santro Ravi’ to CID till January 30. CID officials are questioning the 52-year-old suspect, who was arrested by the Mysuru police in Ahmedabad in Gujarat along with two associates – Ramji and Sruteesh Kumar – on January 13.
Sources in Mysuru Central jail said the CID had taken custody of only ‘Santro’ Ravi while the two others remain in judicial custody.
Meanwhile, prison officials confirmed that the Karnataka government shifted Superintendent of Mysuru Central jail Mahesh Kumar S. Jigani on January 15, a day after ‘Santro Ravi’ was remanded in judicial custody by a city court on January 14.
Mr. Mahesh Kumar was asked to report to Bengaluru office in the light of alleged claims by ‘Santro Ravi’ that, earlier, he had got Mr. Mahesh Kumar transferred from Shivamogga jail to Bengaluru Central jail.
Subsequently, Mahesh Kumar Jigani had been transferred to Mysuru Central jail as superintendent.
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