Bengaluru police book Union minister Kumaraswamy and son Nikhil over remarks about SIT chief

The Sanjay Nagar constabulary registered the FIR connected Monday connected IPS serviceman M Chandrasekhar’s ailment pursuing the directions of a court. JD(S) person Suresh Babu is besides named arsenic an accused successful the lawsuit booked nether conception 224 (threatening a nationalist servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Chandrasekhar, who heads the Lokayukta Special Investigation Team (SIT) inquiring into amerciable mining cases, alleges that connected September 28 and 29, the Union curate held property conferences wherever helium made mendacious accusations and issued threats, including by implying the elder constabulary serviceman could beryllium transferred retired of the Karnataka IPS cadre. The curate allegedly accused him of bribery and fraudulently remaining successful the Karnataka cadre utilizing falsified aesculapian documents successful bid to undermine the investigation.

Chandrasekhar says Nikhil Kumaraswamy echoed his father’s accusations and that Babu sought enactment against him successful a missive sent to the main secretary, which was aboriginal made nationalist connected societal media.

Although Chandrasekhar lodged his ailment successful October, the FIR was registered pursuing an bid from the 42nd further main metropolitan magistrate.

In the property conferences, Kumaraswamy besides allegedly threatened to leverage his governmental power to person Chandrasekhar transferred retired of Karnataka.

Before helium lodged the complaint, a missive Chandrasekhar that had written to his subordinates successful the SIT went viral for the statement, “Never wrestle with pigs; you some get soiled and the pig likes it.”