The police sub-inspector Mallikarjun Bande who was shot-declared him dead at 12.45 a.m

PSI.Mallikarjub Bande

The police sub-inspector Mallikarjun Bande who was shot at and injured in the head in a shoot out with a wanted person Munna Darbadar on January 8 died at the Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital in Hyderabad in the early hours of Wednesday. According to reports doctors at the hospital declared him dead at 12.45 a.m. after his vital organs started failing.

Karnataka People (We) Lost a Dedicated Inspector who use to work honestly !!
We Lost him due to Sheer Carelessness of Karnataka Govt and IGP.They (Govt)would have shifted immediately to London Hospital Where Malala was Treated for the Similar wound !!

Bande was put on the ventilator support soon after the surgery to remove the blood clots in his brain and stop the cerebral bleeding at the Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital in Gulbarga city on Wednesday last week.

He was then shifted to Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital on January 9 on was in coma stage. A team of doctors led by neurosurgeon Ranganadham attended Bande.

The officer's family members demanded that he be taken to the hospital in London where Malala Yousufzai, Pakistani school girl, underwent successful brain surgery after the Taliban shot her in the head for attending school.

However, doctors said he could be shifted only after he regained consciousness.

The health condition of Bande started deteriorating since Monday after his vital organs including both the kidneys showing signs of failure. Subsequently doctors put him on dialysis on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the situation in Gulbarga was tense. Senior police officials including the Inspector General of Police Mohammad Wazir Ahmed and Superintendent of Police Amit Singh took stock of the situation to prevent any untoward incident in view of the Bande’s death. After the shootout incident, Bande has become a icon for the pro-Kannada and pro-Hindu organisations.

Police said 15 platoons of KSRP and 10 District Armed Reserve police battalion have been deployed in Gulbarga and other sensitive areas including Khajuri in Aland taluk, the native village of Bande as a precautionary measure. According to the reports reaching Gulbarga City, Sedam town was observing a spontaneous bandh and there were reports of different organisations resorting to rasta roko in different parts of the city.

The body of Bande has been shifted to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for an autopsy. It would be brought in a vehicle to Khajuri village in Aland taluk and buried with full state honours.