A Bengaluru police inspector was arrested on Thursday by the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) for allegedly helping rape suspect BJP MLA Munirathna in a number of ‘criminal conspiracies’, Deccan Herald reported.
BJP MLA Munirathna.
Ayyanna Reddy, who was serving because the inspector at Hebbagodi police station, is the second particular person to be detained in reference to the high-profile rape case filed towards Munirathna in September, the DH report added.
Though Munirathna was initially taken into custody, he was later granted bail.
As reported by the publication, Reddy has been posted at Hebbagodi for the previous 12 months however beforehand held assignments at police stations in Peenya, Rajgopalanagar, and Yeshwantpur—areas that fall underneath Munirathna’s RR Nagar constituency.
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A senior police official who labored with Reddy advised DH that his lengthy tenure at these stations might have strengthened his connections with the MLA.
The investigation towards Reddy adopted SIT’s questioning of Munirathna’s shut associates, uncovering his alleged function within the MLA’s actions.
Reddy’s arrest adopted the SIT’s questioning of a number of shut associates of Munirathna.
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Circumstances towards Muniratna
The case was filed towards Munirathna and others following a grievance by a 40-year-old lady, a social employee from Rajarajeshwari Nagar who had been lively within the BJP. The FIR was registered on the Kaggalipura police station.
In keeping with the primary data report (FIR), Naidu, together with six of his associates, together with his private gunman, had filmed express movies of the girl and used them for blackmail. She additionally alleged that Naidu coerced her into honey-trapping others, together with the husband of a former Bengaluru corporator.
Munirathna presently faces a number of expenses throughout three separate instances filed at Vyalikaval and Kaggalipura police stations, involving accusations of rape, sexual harassment, voyeurism, felony intimidation, extortion, and selling enmity. He has additionally been charged underneath sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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