Died – 8/26/22
“Tunga” of Lady Singam fame is no more
Dog Tunga, who had helped the police to track down criminals in many important cases, died of illness on Friday.Doberman breed Tunga Dawan helped to detect more than 70 cases of murder and 35 cases of theft after coming to the line of dogs. Tunga, who has been in the police department for 11 years, was honored by senior police officers like state law and order department ADGP Amar Kumar Pandey and district in-charge minister. At the recently held 75th Independence Amrita Mahotsava program, it attracted attention by performing various stunts. Tunga was suffering from fever for the past few days and breathed her last at the animal hospital in the city on Friday. On Friday evening, the last rites of the police department were performed at the district police parade ground. As senior officers of the police department, all the staff expressed their condolence. He played a major role in the investigation of the murder case in Sulakere Gudda of Channagiri Taluk, 11 km from Sulakere Gudda. Odi had tipped off the killer. The murder of a woman in the farm of Pusulamadu village of the district, the murder of a woman in Nyamati, the case of a shepherd being hacked to death with an ax in a village near Malebennur, the murder of a woman in Harpanahalli taluk, etc. played an important role in tipping off the culprits of dozens of murder, robbery and theft cases.