BJP legislator G Somashekara Reddy has reportedly complained to the chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda that the police have treated his brother Janardhana and the BJP supporters shabbily.
Sources said the chief minister, en route to Koppal, met Somashekara— who is also the president of Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF)—at Jindal airport on Friday morning.
Somashekara is said to have complained to the chief minister that the deputy commissioner of Bellary district was acting like an agent of the opposition parties.
Sources close to the KMF president said that he had told the chief minister that the deputy commissioner had asked police to file a case against G Janardhana Reddy, holding him responsible for the violence in Bellary that took place after his arrest.
The police officials did not follow the deputy commissioner’s advice, saying that the case could not be booked because the former minister was in jail when the rampage happened.
Further, the KMF president alleged that the deputy commissioner unnecessarily implicated a BJP corporator and provoked the party’s young leaders such as Diwakar and Sunil Reddy.
Police have registered a case against these two BJP men for
damaging public and private property, whose evidence has been recorded through CCTV camera.
Tight security around Reddy’s mansion. Security has been tightened around the palatial house of the former tourism minister in Bellary . Policemen have been deployed on the two gates of the house. Sources in police said the security includes armed reserve police and law & order police, who are camping around Reddy’s house in three shift cars.
A senior police official, on the condition of anonymity, said the security had been increased only to keep an eye on Reddy’s seized vehicles and other valuables.
The CBI officials have seized Reddy’s Range Rover, Rolls Royce cars among others and kept them in the compound of his house.
Meanwhile, family members of the beleaguered mining baron conducted a special puja in the house along with a homa on Thursday.
The puja was done in front of the house too around 8 pm.
