Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim has recommended to the Director General of Police and Commandant General to initiate disciplinary action against District Home Guards Commandant Dr Muralee Mohan Choontharu.

According to reports available with the recommendations were made by the deputy commissioner after the allegations made by Bernard D’Sa, former Home Guards unit officer, were confirmed by the investigating officer.

It all began when D’Sa filed a complaint on July 18, 2015, before the then Legislative Council Chairman D H Shankaramurthy, after D’Sa was relieved of his responsibilities as a unit officer, ‘on flimsy grounds’. In his complaint, D’Sa had said that the Home Guards Commandant spent most of his time attending to the patients in his wife’s dental clinic at Hosangady in Kasargod district.

Following D’Sa’s complaint, Shankaramurthy had directed the IGP (Western Range) to conduct an in-depth probe into the allegations. The investigation report, submitted by the deputy superintendent of police to the Inspector General of Police, stated that the Home Guards Commandant spends most of his time in the clinic in Kasargod district or at Deralakatte, where he is working in a private college.

The call details of Dr Choontharu’s phone number too have revealed the same, the report stated. The deputy commissioner, in his letter to the DGP (Home Guards), has also stated that the Home Guards District Commandant has been directed not to leave the district headquarters without permission.

In another document obtained by D’Sa after filing an RTI application, it is revealed that Assistant Administrative Officer, Home Guards and Civil Defence Headquarters in Bengaluru, had also forwarded the recommendations to the Principal Secretary to Government (PCAS) with a note that Dr Choontharu had violated the Karnataka Home Guards rules 1963 and had sullied the reputation of the honorary post.

In a separate complaint to the Additional Chief Secretary and Under Secretary to the Chief Minister, D’Sa has appealed the authorities concerned not to consider Home Guards Mulki unit officer H Mansoor for the chief minister’s medal as a report submitted by Panambur circle inspector to the IGP (a copy of which is available with Deccan Herald) has stated that Mansoor is a ‘communally provocative person’ and misuses the office of Home Guards.

Incidentally, Home Guards Commandant Dr Muralee Mohan Choontharu has recommended Mansoor’s name for CM’s silver medal.