ADGP files complaint against Kumaraswamy over false allegations against SIT

BENGALURU: Additional director general of police (ADGP) M Chandra Sekhar on Friday filed a complaint at Sanjay Nagar police station against Union minister for steel and heavy industries and JD(S) president ) Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy for making false allegations, intimidation and threats to obstruct an ongoing investigation by the SIT into a 2013 illegal mining case.

The ADGP is heading a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Lokayukta and the state’s Internal Security Division (ISD) probing the allegations against former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy. The probe relates to allegations that he illegally approved a 550-acre mining lease to Sri Sai Venkateswara Minerals (SSVM) in Bellary district, in violation of the law, during his tenure as Karnataka Chief Minister from 2006 to 2008.

In his letter to the Sanjay Nagar police, who registered a non-cognizable report (NCR), the ADGP said that HD Kumaraswamy, who is currently out on bail, seems disturbed by the SIT’s pursuit of the case.

Chandra Sekhar alleges that Kumaraswamy verbally attacked him and threatened to transfer him to another state. He also claims that the accused threatened him with false allegations against him and his family members.

The ADGP complaint states that HD Kumaraswamy, as a Union Cabinet Minister, misused his official position to illegally obtain documents and obstruct the investigation. He alleges that Kumaraswamy systematically defamed investigators involved in the cases against him or his relatives.

This act of the accused constitutes an offense punishable under Section 224 BNS 2023, the senior police officer said.

Further responding to Kumaraswamy’s allegation that he built a multi-storey structure on a storm drain in his wife’s name, Chandra Sekhar said, “Even the worst criminals and sinners keep women and children out of their vendetta, but the desperation of this accused can be judged from this false and malicious allegation made by him against my wife.

Moreover, JD(S) youth wing president Nikhil Kumaraswamy and JD(S) legislature party leader and MP Suresh Babu are also named in the complaint for leveling false allegations against him.

The ADGP claims that this campaign of intimidation demoralized his team. To motivate them, he wrote a cover letter. In light of this unprecedented campaign of intimidation, Chandra Sekhar says he and his team were left with two options: either surrender and beg for humiliating peace for themselves and their families, or face the campaign of intimidation without end fomented by the accused. , a powerful politician and Union Cabinet Minister, and his supporters.