Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Minister and underfire BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi on Saturday addressed a press conference at his house in the city. During the press conference, he added that he will file a case against Congress Karnataka Chief DK Shivakumar.

The former minister who resigned amidst a sex CD scandal added that he will file a case of atrocity against the state’s Congress chief after his name has now surfaced in the leaked audio clip of the conversation that purportedly took place on the night the sex CD was leaked to television channels.

In the audio clip, the woman is heard telling a man on the other end (said to be her brother) that “DK [Mr. Shivakumar] himself” is meeting her and she had “now come near the house of D. K. Shivakumar” and was going to speak to him.

“Everybody knows who the mastermind is, the parents of the woman in the CD have also confirmed who the mastermind is. I and my family have not cheated any young woman. I will be filing a case of atrocity against DK Shivakumar” Jarkiholi said during the press conference.

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Raichur (Karnataka) (PTI): Fire broke out near the stage of the mass marriage event that was attended by Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar here, police said on Sunday.

Nobody was affected, and the fire was immediately put out, they said.

The fire was noticed shortly after Shivakumar and other dignitaries left the stage, and Forest Minister Eshwaran Khandre was speaking to the media at the venue in Sindhanur, officials said.

According to officials, wires, speakers, and cloth materials near the stage caught fire, allegedly due to a short circuit.

Police personnel present at the spot quickly swung into action and extinguished the fire.

The programme was halted for some time and resumed later, they said.

Several ministers, legislators and political leaders from the region, and actor Sudeep had attended the event.