Bengaluru: Former Karnataka minister and BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali, together with 5 others, has been booked in reference to the suicide of a businessman in Bengaluru’s Ramanagar district on January 1, police mentioned on Monday.
In response to the police, the 47-year-old businessman’s physique was discovered with a gunshot wound to the top in his automobile at Nettigere, positioned 32 km from Bengaluru, on Sunday night. Police additionally discovered an eight-page suicide notice that named Mahadevapura MLA Limbavali, and 5 others — Gopi Ok, Somaiah, G Ramesh Reddy, Jayaram Reddy and Raghava Bhat.
In response to the notice, purportedly written by the businessman, he invested Rs1.5 crore in a Bengaluru pub ‘Opus Membership’ in 2018, which promised him a revenue of ₹3 lakh and a month-to-month return of ₹1.5 lakh. However he allegedly didn’t obtain any earnings. Limbavali is alleged to have tried to dealer a compromise between him and the 5 companions named within the FIR, and an settlement was reached to pay the businessman his dues, however the latter didn’t obtain something, they added.
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Police mentioned the businessman left behind three suicide notes with the identical content material — one at his house, one other on the wiper blade of his relative’s automobile and one in his automobile.
Based mostly on the notice and the grievance lodged by the businessman’s spouse, a First Info Report was registered at Kaggalipura police station and the six accused had been booked beneath Part 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code, mentioned Ramanagara SP Ok Santosh Babu.
In response to the grievance, he went to a resort in Nettigere alongside along with his household on Saturday night time to have fun the New 12 months. He’s mentioned to have left the resort on Sunday morning, saying he wanted to go to Sira, however went house as an alternative, penned the demise notice and returned to the resort and allegedly shot himself within the automobile, the grievance mentioned.
Limbavali has, nonetheless, distanced himself from the incident. “I’ve learnt that I’ve been named within the notice. He used to deal with my social media between 2010 and 2013. He had introduced a enterprise dispute of his to my discover and I requested him and his companions to resolve it amicably. I didn’t even ask how a lot he had invested or make any suggestion to the companions about how a lot they wanted to pay. Later, he (Pradeep) got here and thanked me. I’m not conscious why he died by suicide or why I’ve been named within the notice,” he has informed the media.
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Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai referred to as the case a “civil dispute”. “It’s some civil dispute, police have seized off the matter & FIR has been completed. Police will take additional motion. He (Aravind Limbavali) has made it clear that I’ve nothing to do & I want that he’ll come clear,” Bommai mentioned.