Corporator Suresh set to lose BBMP council membership
TNN | Updated: Apr 5, 2019, 07:56 IST
BBMP headquarterBENGALURU: Congress corporator from A Narayanapura ward, V Suresh, who has been arrested for abetting the suicide of a woman advocate in Mahadevapura, is all set to lose membership of the BBMP council as he hasn’t attended three consecutive monthly meetings.
Advocate Dharani was found hanging from the ceiling of her residence in Mahadevapura on December 31, 2018. Her mother S Devi filed a police complaint against several neighbours and Suresh, accusing them of abetting her suicide. In September 2018, Dharani and her mother had filed a police complaint, saying Suresh and others were harassing them over a property issue.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had sought information from the BBMP on the number of council meetings attended by Suresh since September. In his two-page reply, BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad claimed the corporator was present at four but absent from 10 meetings, including those on budget presentation and discussion.
Technically, section 6 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act 1976 on general disqualification for becoming a councillor reads: “A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a corporator if he/she absents himself from meetings of the corporation during three consecutive months except leave.”
Suresh was absent at three monthly meetings held on January 29, February 27 and March 30 this year. Prasad maintained he will take action as per the KMC Act and write a detailed report to the regional commissioner with the necessary recommendations.
Suresh was arrested in late March from a resort in Tamil Nadu and is in judicial custody. He’s one of the 12 accused booked for abetting Dharani’s suicide. Suresh went missing after the suicide. The high court had on March 19 expressed anguish over the shoddy investigation in the case. If police had promptly acted on Dharani’s complaint, her life could have been saved, it had observed.
Advocate Dharani was found hanging from the ceiling of her residence in Mahadevapura on December 31, 2018. Her mother S Devi filed a police complaint against several neighbours and Suresh, accusing them of abetting her suicide. In September 2018, Dharani and her mother had filed a police complaint, saying Suresh and others were harassing them over a property issue.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had sought information from the BBMP on the number of council meetings attended by Suresh since September. In his two-page reply, BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad claimed the corporator was present at four but absent from 10 meetings, including those on budget presentation and discussion.
Technically, section 6 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act 1976 on general disqualification for becoming a councillor reads: “A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a corporator if he/she absents himself from meetings of the corporation during three consecutive months except leave.”
Suresh was absent at three monthly meetings held on January 29, February 27 and March 30 this year. Prasad maintained he will take action as per the KMC Act and write a detailed report to the regional commissioner with the necessary recommendations.
Suresh was arrested in late March from a resort in Tamil Nadu and is in judicial custody. He’s one of the 12 accused booked for abetting Dharani’s suicide. Suresh went missing after the suicide. The high court had on March 19 expressed anguish over the shoddy investigation in the case. If police had promptly acted on Dharani’s complaint, her life could have been saved, it had observed.
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