1) Despite his eccentricities I consider C Dinakar the bravest and honest officer with conviction. More than anything I appreciate him for his refusal to visit the bungalow in Sadashiv Nagar and cringe before the people there….

2) I think it is equally valid to ask why Rajkumar ignored the official advice and virtually walked into the trap of the ‘brigand’ by visiting Gajanur. How much of tax payer’s money can and should the government spend on one private individual’s security?

3) Those who say but for Rajkumar’s safe release there would have been bloodbath seem to be accepting such things as normal and inevitable. There would be no blood bath or destruction if the Government of the day allows the police to perform their duty.

4) It is just that all of us, including poor SMK are scared to speak truth when it comes to some holy cows

Nothing is overboard in our politics. Especially when it comes to money. SMK got screwed in this case because of the unusual urgency of the case and Veerappan doing his side of the deal outside the normal framework. And normally the police take their cut and keep their mouths shut.

All Karnataka politics and lots of big business related work is kept functioning by suitcases of money.

If someone wants to be overboard within our system, then he can only operate at the lower levels or be a inconsequential fringe player like Dinakar.

There was rioting when Raj died and crores worth of property was lost…does it mean that he should not have died at all….the point here is SMK should have been overboard when he dealt with this issue instead he set his henchmen DKShivakumar to collect loads of cash from business people, for the ransom money. Eventually, he ropes in Telgi to finance the ransom money. How good is that? So what happened to the money dikeshi collected is everybody’s guess.

If one is to believe in further rumours, the policemen who dealt with Veerappan buried his money (after all Veerappan didnt have too many avenues to spend the money after the Rajkumar kidnapping). And after the public forgot about the whole issue, they would have dug up the money for themselves. A bigger reward than the one given by the government.

So the money went from Telgi -> SMK’s minions -> Veerappan -> Underpaid (discluding bribes etc.) policemen.

So in a way money generated by magic by Telgi ends up in underpaid government officials pockets. Kind of poetic justice no?

Stop grinning about it constantly.If something would have happened to Dr Rajkumar during that time,more than 10 times of that money would have bee destroyed due to riots.It was all avoided.

About the interview: both (the interviewer and the interviewee) seem appallingly inadequate and immature.

Look at the way the former governor, former chief minister, former Fulbright scholar’s body language and the language. If he gets so agitated and loses his reason while facing a question like this, I wonder if he had acted and behaved sanely when faced with the ticklish issues of administration. He tries to make Dinakar and Sangram Singh look insignificant by claiming that he has forgotten their names.

So, former chief minister somanahalli mallaiah krishna does not remember the name of the former Director-General of Police and his non-political enemy number 1 now! And he says no ransom was paid or at least ransom was not financed by the sale of fake stamp papers. What he forgets is the people would think that his claim ransom is as true as his claim on forgetting Dinakar’s name. He is defensive but given his experience he could have handled it better. He may get himself admitted to ‘Padmanabhanagar School’ for a crash course on the art of lying.

And about Chetan: the boy seems to have lost it at least in this bit of the interview. he should be better prepared, with better knowledge of recent history and a less arrogant style of asking questions with firmness and clarity of thought. He should do a lot better if does not switch to ‘English’ in a Kannada programme.

I am convinced Telgi’s ill gotten money was used by Krishna and his Home Minister Kharge who is “credited” with fleecing and extorting crores from Telgi.

Amusing, actually shocking, to see this gentleman is being seen as a saviour by party and being wooed Bangalore corporates !