Siddaramaiah along with son and minister Yathindra visited Siddaramanahundi Friday to consecrate a temple
The court adjourned his anticipatory bail petition to Oct 30.
Shetty had been questioned repeatedly by a Bengaluru city police team, including cybercrime experts, following a complaint filed by Siddaramaiah himself, a senior police officer said. The investigation was also pursued after Union minister HD Kumaraswamy met director general and inspector general of police MA Saleem and sought legal action against Shetty and others allegedly involved in the sting operation, police said. Investigators questioned Shetty about a video featuring a burqa-clad woman speaking about Siddaramaiah, according to police sources. Shetty denied being the man in the video and told investigators he had no knowledge of what they were asking him about, sources said.
Bengaluru : A court in Bengaluru Friday granted interim bail to Power TV’s Rakesh Shetty, who is being investigated by Bengaluru Cybercrime police over an alleged sting operation involving former chief minister Siddaramaiah . Investigators combined the complaints and summoned Shetty to record his statements. A male voice in the video allegedly asks the woman whether she can identify personal marks on the former chief minister’s body and whether she is prepared to seek vengeance against him. Police then confronted him with call detail records (CDRs) showing calls exchanged between Shetty, a private individual from Keralam, Kripa Alva and a few others described by investigators as being close to a Congress leader.