ParmesH S Jain
Since Yesterday the Cops grilling Rahul Bhat to ascertain possible involvement of others in the blackmail racket while the mobile phone seized from him has been sent to FSL for technical analysis.
Senior officer told media persons,Rahul had used the SIM of UK to make ransom calls and sending video clips.
The mobile phones contain many clips and many of them has been deleted.We are now trying to retrieve the deleted data and also trying to find the list of people with whom Bhat had contacts .
Meanwhile the SIM Card used by Rahul belonging to daughter of a MLA from north Karnataka.She was studying in UK and returned to city recently .
We are awaiting for the report based on which she will be questioned.The investigations continued to trace the raw footage of the video and the woman present in the video.
Police suspect Rahul had used a city based model in the video and efforts are on to track her down.
Initial probe revealed that Rahul had planned for nearly two months to prepare the video before contacting the PA of the ministers and his son for ransom.
He accessed the SIM card of the UK from a friend who earlier borrowed the SIM from the daughter of the minister he added.
Home Minister,Araga Jnanendra said the CCB officials are investigating the case in all angles and fair probe is on no one will be spared and there is no pressure for any officers a fair probe will be done in the case and those involved in the racket will be dealt with stringent action he added.
