DHARWAD, 3 JULY

Additional Superintendent of Police Narayan Baramani, who had sought voluntary retirement from service (VRS), after facing the Chief Minister's anger during a Congress rally in April, on Thursday said he was attending to his duty.

"As I'm in a disciplined department, I have shared my feelings with my higher officials. The chief minister, home minister and higher officials have spoken to me in this regard. I'm attending duty," Baramani said.

The officer, however, did not comment on the episode and the status of his VRS, citing that he is in a disciplined department.

Siddaramaiah on 28 April lost his cool and made a gesture by raising his hand at Baramani on the stage, as an alleged group of women BJP workers tried to disrupt his speech during a massive rally in Belagavi.

As the women showed a black flag and raised slogans, a visibly upset Siddaramaiah summoned the Additional SP rank officer onto the stage. He addressed him in singular and said, "Come here, who is the SP? What are you doing?"

The CM was then seen making a gesture by raising his hand at the officer out of frustration, but withdrew it immediately, and subsequently instructed him to remove the people who were creating a disturbance.

"Having been publicly insulted and humiliated by the behaviour of the chief minister on a public platform for a mistake I did not commit, I have no other option but to seek voluntary retirement," Baramani's purported letter to the Home Department said.