Bellary: A driver on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide after blaming Karnataka mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and a KAS officer of harassing him.
The incident took place in Mandya on Tuesday.
In his suicide note, deceased Ramesh Gowda claimed that he knew information on how Janaradhan Reddy converted 100 crore black money into white, thus received constant death threats. Nayak is said to have gotten a 20 per cent cut for helping Reddy covert the money that was much needed for his lavish daughter’s wedding
The suicide note claims, Reddy along with BJP MP Sriramulu met Bheema Nayak several times in a five star hotel in Bangalore before the opulent Reddy’ daughter’s wedding. Along with 20 percent cut, Nayak wanted to Reddy to help him get a ticket to contest the 2018 Karnataka elections. A case has been booked against Bheema Nayak and his driver Mohammed.
The Income Tax department after the “500 crore” wedding visited Janardhan Reddy’s house in Bellary and asked him to produce details of the income for the wedding.
Earlier, IT sleuths had unearthed around Rs 150 crore in unaccounted property and cash – Rs 5.7 crore was in new notes of Rs 2,000 – at the palatial residences of two state government engineers. Chikkarayappa and SC Jayachandra have been suspended now. These engineers are said to be close aides of CM Siddaramaiah , however he was quick to reject such allegations.
Gowda is the son of Chikka Hombalegowda from Kadukottanahalli in the Taluk. He worked as a driver in Bengaluru with Bheema Nayak, a special land acquisition officer.
According to reports, BJP leader Reddy, who spent four years in Hyderabad and Bengaluru jails, had returned to Karnataka’s Bellary after five years and two months on November 1 to make preparations for his daughter’s wedding. The Bellary mining baron reportedly splurged Rs 500 crore for hosting his daughter’s lavish wedding.
More than 10,000 people had lined up to receive him in his former fiefdom after he got the court’s permission to visit Bellary to make preparations for his daughter’s wedding.
(Agencies)
