This story is from November 14, 2018

DSP's death: Cops bungled or did they turn a blind eye?

Suicide Despite Police Presence Raises Queries
DSP's death: Cops bungled or did they turn a blind eye?
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Allegations that the police have been either ignorant or have turned a blind eye to help DSP Harikumar evade arrest for the past one week gathered more currency after he was found dead inside his own house in the outskirts of the capital.
While the police were propounding the theory that he could have escaped to Tamil Nadu and later to Karnataka, the officer was found dead in his own house just 35km away from Thiruvananthapuram city.

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It is being alleged that some of the top police officers themselves had helped him evade arrest till court takes up his anticipatory bail application. SP (Thiruvananthapuram rural) P Ashok Kumar himself had come on record saying that the DSP had spoken to him over the phone before he switched it off and absconded. The SP didn't act to stop his junior then and the decision has turned out to be a blunder now.
However, state police chief Loknath Behera vehemently denied police helping the DSP in any way. "All such allegations are absolutely baseless and unfounded. The crime branch had deployed multiple teams to search for him as we had information that he had left the state," Behera said.
Sources in the police department say his house was off the police radar as they never expected him to come back to his house as he would have expected it to be under surveillance. "Moreover, if he knew that the police would help him out of the way, why would he even think of committing suicide," a senior police officers asked.

Experts, who had dealt with such cases in the past, also upheld police theory. "In the past, there has been several instances when policemen were implicated in murder cases. But they have all fought their cases with a degree of vigour more than any ordinary citizen as they know their colleagues would have a soft corner for them unlike towards any other murder accused," former DGP K J Joseph said.
He said in such a scenario, police would ensure that they are not physically harmed and that the case is properly charge-sheeted. They will not help them to evade arrest. "But in this case, the police should not have straightaway charged him with murder, as it appears to be a case of unintentional murder. With that, he would have felt that the police are hostile towards him and that it is the end of the road. That would have prompted him to take the extreme step," Joseph said.
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