In the counter-complaint, Kulkarni has accused the pistillate and Rakesh Shetty, the managing manager of Power TV, of attempting to extort Rs 2 crore from him.
The Bengaluru metropolis constabulary registered an FIR against Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni connected Tuesday aft a 34-year-old pistillate accused him of rape, kidnapping and transgression intimidation. In the FIR, Kulkarni, the Dharwad MLA, and his subordinate Arjun were named arsenic accused, constabulary said.
Vinay Kulkarni filed a antagonistic ailment against the pistillate and a Kannada quality transmission caput for “blackmailing and trying to extort Rs 2 crore from him”. Based connected the ailment filed by the MLA, the constabulary registered different FIR and launched an probe into the matter.
The woman, identifying herself arsenic a societal worker, stated that she met Kulkarni successful aboriginal 2022 astatine his Bengaluru residence aft helium reached retired to her done a communal contact. She alleged that Kulkarni made intersexual advances implicit video calls. When she resisted, she claimed, Kulkarni sent men to endanger her, coercing her into continuing communication.
On August 24, 2022, Kulkarni allegedly drove her to a distant country adjacent Kempegowda airdrome and sexually assaulted her. She alleged that Kulkarni threatened her to support quiescent and promised to look aft her.
In the counter-complaint, Kulkarni has accused the pistillate and Rakesh Shetty, the managing manager of Power TV, of attempting to extort Rs 2 crore from him. His complaint, filed with Sanjay Nagar constabulary connected Monday evening, came aft the TV transmission aired the woman’s allegations on with ocular grounds purportedly showing Kulkarni connected a video telephone with her. The constabulary person since registered different FIR based connected Kulkarni’s allegations.
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