Newsroom, Dec 28: Senior IPS officer Dr K Madhukar Shetty, who was admitted at a private hospital in Hyderabad after being diagnosed with swine flu, died on Friday evening.
47-year-old Shetty, who was under treatment at Continental Hospitals for over a week, breathed his last at around 8.15pm today.
Son of prominent journalist late Vaddarse Raghurama Shetty, Madhukar Shetty, a 1999-batch IPS officer of Karnataka-cadre, was from Udupi district.
Shetty was known as an upright officer and had played a major role in the KarnatakaLokayukta’s inquiry into the illegal mining scam in Ballari district.
Before writing the civil services examination, Shetty did his MA in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
As superintendent of police of Chikkamagaluru district, Shetty earned laurels as a public-friendly officer. He and then DC, Harsh Gupta, spearheaded a drive to clear encroachment of government land. The reclaimed land was later distributed among Dalits, who named the settlement as Gupta Shetty Halli, after the two officers.
Shetty also served as SP in the Special Task Force during the last phase of anti-Veerappan operations, Anti-Naxal Force and Karnataka Lokayukta and DCP (Traffic), Bengaluru. He had also worked with the War Crimes Investigation Unit in UN Mission, Kosovo.
Shetty left to the US for higher studies in 2011 and earned his PhD in Public Administration from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, Albany, New York.
On returning, he was promoted to the rank of DIG and worked for some time in the police recruitment wing. Later, he went on deputation to the central government and was posted as deputy director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
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