Karnataka cop suspended over toddler's death in jail

A Sub-Inspector of Police attached to Jewargi Police Station Manjunath Hugar was suspended in connection with the death of a three-year-old girl in Kalaburagi on Saturday night.

Kalaburgi: After the death of three-year-old girl child who was sent to jail along with her mother over a clash in Karnataka’s Kalaburgi, a sub-Inspector has been suspended on Monday.

The suspended sub-inspector has been identified as Manjunath Hugar of Javergi police station.

According to reports, a woman was arrested in a case and was jailed with her child in Jewargi police station. When the girl got sick and her condition deteriorated in the jail, she was rushed to GIMS hospital, where she breathed her last on Saturday morning.

Hundreds of people staged a protest against local police on Sunday outside Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Kalaburagi, over the girl’s death. The locals alleged that police was responsible for the death of the toddler and police assured the protesters of fair enquiry into the case.

Following this, Kalaburagi SP Simi Mariam George on Monday suspended sub-inspector Hugar for the negligence of duty.

A three-year-old girl who was sent to jail along with her mother over a Gram Panchayat election-related clash between two families

Meanwhile, Congress leader Ajaya Singh said that he was holding the police responsible for the child's death and now he has been suspended but people want a fair enquiry into the case.