T. G. Sangram Singh
T.G. Sangram Singh, popularly known as Sangram Singh is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police and a Super Cop from Karnataka.
Early life
Sangram was born in Chikkajajur, Chitradurga to T Govind Singh and Parvathi Bai. His father was an inspector in Yeshwanthpur Station, Bangalore until 1968. He has three brothers and five sisters. His second brother T.G.Viswanath Singh was killed in a vehicle accident near Tin factory KR Puram area. His eldest brother T.G. Bhagavan Singh along with his wife Prabha Singh moved to Canada in the year 1974 leaving a job at State Marketing Federation Bangalore. As he did not have any children, he adopted a baby girl from Gulbarga from one of their family member. Her name is DharmaShree a Lawyer, married to Lakshmikanth Tivari from Bijapur and has two beautiful daughters Varalika and Arika. He along with his father served for 70 years combined in Karnataka Police.
Sangram Singh is a relative, from his wife's side to former chief minister and MP Dharam Singh.[1]
Career
His first job was that of a lab assistantin Government forensic lab, he served there for 4 years. He was part of first super imposition of Karnataka. He served for 5000 forensic cases during this part of life. Later, he was interested to become a PSI, to which his father objected. His father was the manager of Kapali Theater then.
In 1972, he got selected to the State Police in his 2nd interview and was posted to Raichur. In those times, there were no motorcycles for police. So he used bicycles, with which he used to travel around, and also used it for night rounds. During this time, he was inspired by an Amitabh Bachchan's portrayal of police in a Hindi Movie. He had a craze of watching a film at least once monthly, even during the service.
Later around 1976, he was posted to Cubbon Park Police Station, during which an emergency was declared. In this period he had detained many politicians including Lal Krishna Advani. Following this, he got married. He saw his wife for the first time just before toeing the holy thread. All his earnings were handed over to his father as was the practice in the family, all the other brothers did the same.
Sangram Singh was then posted to Srirampuram, which was highly infamous for an unruly activity for local Rowdies. One day, he went for rounds with his own scooter, in the course of the round, a shopkeeper near Sunrise Circle, advised him not to dialogue with the rowdy since the rowdies there were very iniquitous. Sangram took this as a challenge and became a police stalwart. Higher authority pressured him to maintain law and order in his jurisdiction. He along with ACP Ramesh Chandra suppressed Oil Kumara, Boothouse Kumara, Kotwal Ramachandra and Don Jairaj. He was the first officer to go alone to Swathantra Palya and Hanumanth Nagar, where he ceased activities of Rowdy Nanjunda, Rajendra.
Later he worked in an anti-rowdy squad with Azeem, KVK Reddy, Ashok Kumar and Bheemaiah. Together they controlled about 250 rowdies of Bangalore Underworld. Azeem, G. A. Bawa and he caught captured 12 rowdies in Bihar who flew to elude. He also had information about Dawood Ibrahim's interests in Bangalore, and also alleges to have given information about Mandakini's dwelling in Bangalore. He is known for his valiance in Bangalore, and is known for hindering people under Bangalore Underworld. He is acclaimed to have served as a Police Inspector in K.R._Market, which is the central part of Bangalore.[2]
He was alleged of abetting the stamp paper scam and destroying evidence against the perpetrators when he was inspector of police in the Kalasipalyam market police station in 1997, and was said to have involved in improper investigation and filing a weak case to help the accused Abdul Rahim Telgi (Abdul Karim Telgi's brother), who is dead now. This is where his downfall started. Court proceedings, a jail term and much money spent during the court case.[3] Ironically, he is the first officer to register a case in the fake stamp paper scam in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.[4] G.A Bawa brought back the scam in 2001.
He was arrested by the CBI, along with which retired ADGP B N Nagaraj, DIG U Nisar Ahmed, ACPs G A Bawa, Soudhagar and K M Muddaiah and inspectors Mariswamy Gowda and Nanjunde Gowda were accused of committing official misconduct. On 24 January, the government had suspended Sangram Singh along with Vali Basha, V A Khan and Muddaiah. Sangram Singh was four days short of his official retirement that day.[5] In the jail, he shared space with the culprits whom he himself had caught. What a pity.
He alleges S M Krishna and his son-in-law Siddharth, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad and D K Shivakumar to have made him a scapegoat in the scam to safeguard the former minister Roshan Baig.[6]
Involvement in Veerappan Money Case
He is involved in fulfilling Veerapan's order during the Rajkumar's abduction.[7] He had concurred that he had visited Chennai twice and paid a ransom of Rs 200 million to Rajnikanth's manager. which is said to be later to Veerappan. However, he did not specify the source of money.[8] It is said that the money supplied to Veerappan was paid by Telgi.[9]
In films and literature
He has announced that a film based on his life will be made. The film was titled Sangram Singh and the project had a grand launch at the Malleswaram Club. But it never took off after the shadow of the stamp paper scam fell on it. Sangram Singh had also announced that he would be writing an autobiography.[10] Nowadays Sangram Singh is very busy and popular as a talk show host at various T V Stations. He runs his own Security Service Company and other rental properties and agricultural properties. On the bright side him and his family devote lot of time and money on visiting temples, improving the temples. He just need an excuse to go to the temple have a grand pooja.
References
- http://www.bangaloremirror.com/printarticle.aspx?page=comments&action=translate§id=10&contentid=2009041620090416003846944dc2c041f&subsite=
- http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/17/stories/2009041753920500.htm
- http://www.bangaloremirror.com/printarticle.aspx?page=comments&action=translate§id=10&contentid=2009041620090416003846944dc2c041f&subsite=
- http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july092004/i4.asp
- http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july082004/i2.asp
- http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july092004/i4.asp
- http://www.rediff.com/news/rajakid.htm
- http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july092004/i4.asp
- http://www.ourkarnataka.com/Articles/starofmysore/ransom06.htm
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