BENGALURU: Hours after the DCP (North) Chethan Singh Rathor submitted a three-page departmental inquiry report regarding the recent assault by an ACP on a hotelier, the latter got a threatening phone call from a gangster.
Rathor had on Monday submitted the report to Additional Commissioner (West) Malini Krishnamoorthy regarding the assault by the JC Nagar ACP Manjunath Babu on a hotelier and had indicted the former.
However this brought little relief to the hotelier, Rajeev Shetty, owner of Shetty Lunch Home. On Monday night he got a threatening call from “Ravi Poojary”, a fugitive Indian gangster.
Shetty rushed to the R.T. Nagar police station to file a complaint and also met the city police commissioner, T. Suneel Kumar, in this regard.
“I never thought this case would take such a turn,” Shetty said. He got a call at his hotel landline at 10.30 pm. The caller introduced himself as Ravi Poojary to his staff, who had answered the call, and issued threats if the hotel was not shut down in ‘half-an-hour’.
The gangster who called the hotel (a recording is available with DC) asked for Shetty. When the staff said he has gone out, the man introduced himself as Ravi Poojary and asked the employees to convey his warning to Shetty that he should shut down his hotel in half-an-hour, or else his gang members will spray the hotel with bullets and kill everyone. “Tell Shetty that Ravi Poojary had called from Australia. He knows me very well. If the hotel is not closed in half-an-hour, my men will come and start firing at the hotel,” the caller had said in Hindi.
On the night of November 9 at around 11.50 pm, ACP Manjunath had entered the Shetty Lunch Home on Dinnur main road in RT Nagar police station limits and canned Shetty mercilessly for keeping the hotel open till midnight.
The entire incident was recorded in the CCTV camera installed at the hotel which went viral on November 15. City police Commissioner T. Suneel Kumar had then ordered a departmental inquiry on the issue and told DCP Rathor to investigate the issue. Shetty had told DC that he had permission to keep his hotel open till 1 am and is clueless why he was beaten up.
According to a source, inquiry officer Rathor has found that the ACP was at the fault and erred in caning the hotelier and has mentioned the same in the report he has submitted to the city police commissioner and sought disciplinary action.
