Mysuru: Three police personnel — including one Inspector and two Sub-Inspectors — have been suspended for alleged negligence and misconduct in a murder investigation that wrongly jailed an innocent man for nearly three years.
DIGP (Southern Range) MB Boralingaiah issued suspension orders against Inspector B.G. Prakash and PSIs Mahesh Kumar and Prakash Yathinamani following a report by the Additional Superintendent of Police. The trio served at Bettadapura Police Station in Periyapatna, where they investigated a 2021 unidentified body case.
Kurubara Suresha, a local villager, was falsely accused of murdering his wife, Mallige, who had gone missing. Police officers reportedly ignored forensic findings, which clearly identified the body as male, and instead fabricated evidence to link Suresha to Mallige’s “murder.”
Despite his repeated claims that Mallige had eloped, Suresha was arrested and remanded to judicial custody. In April 2025, Mallige was found alive in Madikeri, where she had been living with her lover, unaware of her husband’s imprisonment.
She was produced before the Mysuru court, which acquitted Suresha, declaring the charges false and baseless.
Following the revelation, SP N Vishnuvardhana reopened the case, and based on statements from Mallige, Suresha, and their relatives, Suresha was finally released.
His lawyer, Pandu Poojari, was instrumental in securing his acquittal. Suresha has now filed a criminal appeal in the High Court, seeking enhanced compensation for wrongful incarceration and mental trauma.