Bengaluru (Karnataka), April 21, 2025 (ANI): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara is “saddened” as IPS officer and former Karnataka DGP Om Prakash was found dead on April 20. He said, “The investigation is going on. It is being said that his wife committed the murder, and the police are investigating the whole case. When I was Home Minister for the first time, Om Prakash worked with me, he was a good officer…Such an incident should not have happened. I'm saddened by the murder of Om Prakash. Until the investigation is complete, it's difficult to say definitively why the murder occurred. We will discuss the matter in next cabinet meeting.”On Sunday, the former Karnataka Director General of Police (DGP) and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Om Prakash was found dead at his residence in the HSR Layout, a residential locality in Bengaluru.
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00:00Former Director General of Police, Sri Jaya Prakash, Om Prakash, has been murdered, they say by his own wife, but the investigation is on, until and unless we get the report, the investigation report, we cannot conclude anything.
00:24The investigation is on, they are looking at various aspects, once the report is with us, then we can say how the murder has been done and so on.
00:39He has worked with you, sir, whenever you were the first time home minister?
00:41Yeah, when I was the first time home minister in 2015, he was the Director General of Police, he worked with me, he was a very good man, good competent officer, but it is unfortunate.
00:56Sir, any murder or murder?
00:58No, we don't know anything, we don't know the motive, we don't know anything about this murder, but we will investigate, I mean, the department is going to investigate that, and once the report comes to us, then we will know.
01:15Any arrest at first?
01:16No, no, no, no, no, that wife has been secured, they are questioning her, but beyond that nothing is known.
01:26The opposition parties, individually there are also many members who have supported this.
01:56Even today also in the media one of the MLAs said we will support, we are not against caste censors. So there were different opinions within the BJP also, within Jantadal also. So naturally some people want it, some people may not like this the way it has been done.
02:17So there were comments, there were oppositions. We take all this into consideration while discussing. Then probably in the next cabinet meeting, whenever it is fixed for this purpose only, we will discuss and come out with the government's decision.