Udupi: Kaup MLA Vinay Kumar Sorake said that he has not received any cell, tele-phone call from late DYSP MK Ganapati. Sorake described Ganapathi as an honest police officer who worked hard to maintain law and order when he had been serving in Dakshina Kannada district. MLA further added that he officially met him number of times, but denied the reports that he received a call from Ganapati, just a day before his death.

A report by the Forensic Science Laboratory, submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department, notes that crucial evidence such as mobile call record details, messages and even some files stored in a hard drive and a pen drive belonging to the officer have been erased. The report does not specify when they were deleted or what the deleted files could have contained.

There were many loopholes in the investigation which the police had not looked into. There were reports from the police that two rounds were fired from Ganapathi’s service revolver before he allegedly hanged himself.