Karnataka Police has lodged an FIR against Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel, H.D. Kumaraswamy, on Tuesday following a court order.
The petition in this regard was submitted by Lokayukta ADGP and Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief M. Chandrashekar, who has accused Kumaraswamy of defaming and threatening him and his family.
It has been reported that the FIR has now been registered against Kumaraswamy by the Sanjaynagar police in Bengaluru. Nikhil Kumaraswamy, the son of Kumaraswamy and NDA candidate for Channapatna seat, has been identified as the second accused in this case.
C.B. Suresh Babu, the JD(S) party floor leader in the Legislative Assembly, has been identified as the third accused in the case.
Chandrashekar had filed a complaint against Kumaraswamy with the Sanjaynagar police stating that the leaders threatened him and his family.
The police had accepted a non-cognisable miscellaneous case.
Chandrashekar had moved the court seeking registration of an FIR against Kumaraswamy. The development is likely to trigger a tussle between Kumaraswamy and Chandrashekar.
Kumaraswamy had taken a dig at Chandrashekar for seeking permission to question the Raj Bhavan staff over the issue of information leak on a confidential file.
He had called Chandrashekar a criminal and accused him of being involved in extortion.
To this, Chandrashekar responded by writing a letter to his staff and dismissed all the allegations against him terming it false and malicious.
Chandrashekar ended the letter quoting the famous words from playwright George Bernard Shaw, "Never wrestle with a pig because you'll get both dirty, and the pig likes it.".
Earlier, the Home Minister G. Parameshwara while defending ADGP Chandrashekar had said, "The police officers will have the mandate of investigation and the SIT has been formed lawfully. They will do their duty. If their work is hindered by the police, they will have procedures of their own to deal with it and they will initiate those steps.".
The Karnataka government's Chief Secretary, Shalini Rajneesh, met a delegation of JD(S) MLAs and MLCs led by the floor leader, C.B. Suresh Babu, on 30 September and asked for the sacking of the Lokayukta SIT Chief.
Suresh Babu had said, "ADGP M. Chandrashekar, who heads the Lokayukta SIT should be suspended from service and action must be initiated against him by sending a proposal in this regard to the Union Home Ministry from the state government."
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