BBMP to rename Kodi Circle after late IPS officer Madhukar Shetty

Team Udayavani, Jul 11, 2019, 7:18 PM IST

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Bengaluru: Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun informed that the BBMP has decided to rename the Kodi Circle in Whitefield as Madhukar Shetty Circle and will install also his statue at the circle.

It is gathered that fore DCP of Whitefield Abdul Ahad and other friends of Shetty wanted a circle in the locality to be named after Madhukar Shetty, following which Corporation S Uday Kumar proposed the plan of naming Kodi Circle after Shetty. The Pallike’s Town Planning Standing Committee approved the proposal of Uday Kumar.

According to the reports, the funds sanctioned for the development of the ward will be used for installing Shetty’s statue at the circle.

Madhukar Shetty son of Kannada journalist Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty died in December 2018 while undergoing treatment for swine flu at Continental Hospitals in Hyderabad.