Karnataka Cooperative official S P Mahantesh who had been tasked with auditing the cooperative societies in Bangalore died in the hospital. He had been earlier brutally attacked.
Gossip is rife that he had been a victim of the cooperative mafia and the police would not do an effective job as they are subject to undesirable influences.
Mahantesh had exposed several scams involving irregular allotments made by the cooperative housing societies.
Karnataka Chief Minister has assured that the police would soon nab the criminals responsible for Mahantesh’s murder and all possible steps would be taken to ensure the security of those who expose scandals.
Sources say most of the cooperative societies are synonymous with graft and fraudulent activities. The Mafiosi controlling them are so powerful that they can go to any extent to get rid of the people who are exposing them.
Mahantesh has recently been involved in exposing scandals in several cooperative societies including the BEML Employees Cooperative Society.
There have recently been reports that several housing cooperative societies have been indulging in serious irregularities and corrupt practices. The murderous attack on auditor Mahantesh needs to be viewed against this background.
The directorate of co-operative audit, where Mahantesh worked, looks beyond routine audit of societies and probes administrative lapses, deviation from bylaws and discharge of responsibilities by boards. Mahantesh is in charge of auditing documents of several housing co-operative societies which have allegedly broken rules in site allotments.
In another incident a director of a cooperative bank was killed by unidentified men in Chakra village in Western Uttar Pradesh, according to the police. Police is investigating the matter and is at work trying to nab the criminals.
