Have responsibility of protecting all leaders: CM Siddaramaiah assures probe into honey trap claims
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the state government will order a high-level investigation into allegations of honey-trap attempts targeting ministers.
"We will surely get a probe conducted. I will speak to Home Minister G. Parameshwara and senior leaders. We have a responsibility to protect all leaders," Siddaramaiah said in the state Legislative Assembly on Friday morning.
He was addressing the controversy surrounding Cooperation Minister K. N. Rajanna, who had raised the issue in the Assembly the previous day.
Rajanna claimed that at least 48 politicians, from across party lines, had been honey trapped, including both state and national leaders. “I will not shy away from revealing the fact that a honey-trap attempt was made on me. I am not Sathya Harishchandra or Sri Ramachandra to hide it,” Rajanna stated. “Karnataka has been called a factory of CDs and pen drives - not by me, but by many people. This is a serious accusation,” he had earlier said.
Siddaramaiah clarified that no names had been mentioned by Rajanna in connection with the claims. He mentioned that an inquiry probe would be ordered since it is the responsibility of the government to protect all elected representatives irrespective of party affiliations.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said those affected should immediately file a complaint. “If anyone has been affected, let them file a police complaint immediately. Don’t waste time,” the state Congress president told reporters.
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Sushant Rajput death: CBI submits closure reports in cases filed by his father, Rhea Chakraborty
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has filed two separate closure reports related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, one in the abetment to suicide case filed by his father, and another by the actor's rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty against his sisters, officials said Saturday.
The CBI submitted its findings on Rajput's father K K Singh's complaint in a closure report before a special court in Patna, while the closure report in the second case was submitted before a special court in Mumbai.
The courts will now decide whether to accept the report or order further probe by the agency, the officials quoted above said.
Chakraborty’s advocate Satish Maneshinde hailed the closure report and thanked the CBI for "having thoroughly investigated every aspect of the case from all angles".
Rajput was found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14, 2020. He was 34. His postmortem conducted at Cooper Hospital had concluded that the actor died due to asphyxia.
The CBI investigated the two separate cases -- filed by KK Singh with Patna Police accusing Chakraborty of abetment to suicide and siphoning off Rs 15 crore from the actor's accounts; and the second filed by Chakraborty in Bandra accusing Rajput's sisters of giving medicines to him on the basis of bogus prescription issued by a Delhi doctor.
In the case filed before Bandra Police, which was later taken over by the CBI, Chakraborty had alleged that Rajput died five days after these medicines were wrongly prescribed to him.
Based on expert opinion, crime scene analysis, witness statements and forensic reports, the CBI concluded there was no material to support the allegations that anyone could have driven the actor to suicide, the officials said.
The agency finally decided to file its final reports bringing to rest five years of conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the bollywood star, they said.
In its reported medico-legal opinion to the CBI, forensic specialists at AIIMS had dismissed the claims of "poisoning and strangling" made in the case of Rajput's death.
The CBI had recorded the statements of Rhea Chakraborty and others in his close circle, and collected the actor's medical records.
Chakraborty’s advocate Satish Maneshinde hailed the closure report filed by the CBI. "We are grateful to the CBI for having thoroughly investigated every aspect of the case from all angles and closed the case," the advocate said in a statement.
Maneshinde said the amount of "false narrative in social media and electronic media was totally uncalled for".
"Due to the (Covid) pandemic, every one was glued to the television and social media in the absence of anything happening in the country. Innocent people were hounded and paraded before the media and investigative authorities," the statement said.
"Rhea Chakraborty had to undergo untold miseries and was behind bars for 27 days before being released on bail," he said.
