Senior IPS office Dr Madhukar Shetty, son of Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty unwell

coastaldigest.com web desk

December 26, 2018

Mangaluru, Dec 26: Senior IPS officer Dr Madhukar Shetty, who is suffering from H1N1, is reportedly in a critical condition. He is the son of late Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty, founder editor of Mungaru Kannada daily, which was a popular newspaper in coastal Karnataka decades ago.

The 1999 batch (Karnataka Cadre) IPS officer is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad for past few days.

It is learnt that chief minister H D Kumaraswamy today spoke to his Telangana counterpart KC Chandrasekar Rao and requested him to ensure best of the treatment. Besides, ADGP Pratap Reddy has to Hyderabad to ensure that Shetty receives good treatment.

An upright officer, Shetty has a MA in Sociology from Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Ph.D in Public Administration from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, Albany, New York.

Madhukar served as ASP in Bengaluru Rural District, SP in Chamarajanagar and Chikmagalur Districts, SP-Special Task Force during the last phase of anti-Veerappan operations, SP- Anti-Naxal Force, SP-Karnataka Lokayukta, Aide De Camp to the Governor of Karnataka, and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Bengaluru.

In 2008-2009, he went on deputation to the United Nations Mission in Kosova, where he worked with the War Crimes Investigation Unit.

Mr. Shetty is presently Deputy Director, Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.

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The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

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