Bengaluru, Sept. 29 -- A Bengaluru police officer was suspended for not informing his superiors about a man who was reported as suspicious by the French Consulate, police said on Saturday.

The consulate had contacted the High Grounds police on September 22, flagging unusual behaviour by a man close to the luxury hotel. Sub-inspector Umashankar M and his team detained the person on the same day but did not initiate legal proceedings. Instead, the man was released overnight, an action that sparked alarm among embassy officials, who escalated the matter to senior police authorities, police said.

A subsequent internal inquiry found that no complaint had been filed by the consulate's representatives. Still, investigators concluded that the o...