BJP has no role in Gauri Lankesh murder: Jagadish Shettar
Hubballi, June 14: Categorically declining the role of BJP in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, former chief minister and BJP leader Jagadish Shettar said that the culprits in the case should be punished.
Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Shettar said that the SIT has arrested some of the accused in related to Gauri Lankesh murder and interrogating them. But the investigating officers should find out the real culprits. Whoever it may be, those who committed crime should be punished, he said.
Both Veerashaiva and Lingayat are one and the same. Then where is the question of separate religion. The people have sent those who fought for separate Lingayat religion tag to home in the Assembly election. Now, they have been saying that they would fight legally for the separate religion tag. Before the election, they should have fought legally. But the people have not believed about the separate religion tag in election. Now, they have no option to go before the people. So, they have planned to take legal fight, Shettar criticised.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
_vb_49.jpeg)
Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
_vb_90.jpeg)
_vb_90.jpeg)