The state government has on August 24 handed over the probe into death threat letters to several writers across the State for over a year now, to the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru City Police.
This comes a day after a delegation of writers met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and requested for a special probe into these threat letters. The writers had also met Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwara, who had promised a “probe by a special team to get to the bottom of the case”.
The order issued by Karnataka State Police chief Alok Mohan on Thursday has directed Bengaluru City Police Commissioner to form a special team to probe the matter, with an Assistant Commissioner of Police rank officer as the Investigating Officer (IO) and directed Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) to supervise the investigation. A total of seven FIRs that were registered over death threat letters to writers Kum. Veerabhadrappa, B. L. Venu, Banjagere Jayaprakash, B. T. Lalitha Nayak and Vasundhara Bhupati have been transferred to the CCB.
