Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday stated he has ordered an in depth investigation in opposition to Okay S Manjunath, who goes by a nickname ‘Santro Ravi’. With numerous images of Ravi rising out with the Ministers within the Karnataka authorities, the Congress charged that each one of them have shut proximity with him. It is usually alleged that Ravi has a legal background. The Congress additionally took to the Twitter and posted his movies and pictures with the Ministers.
In a single {photograph} Ravi was seen sitting behind bundles of foreign money notes unfold on the desk. The get together sought to know why the Enforcement Directorate and the Revenue Tax division couldn’t detect him. Dismissing the costs made by Congress, Bommai stated, “You can not determine based mostly on the {photograph} however the principle concern is that there’s a case in opposition to him (Ravi). A woman has lodged a criticism in opposition to him. If the investigation is taken up then all different circumstances will even come out and it’ll assist examine all of them,” Bommai advised reporters in Mysuru.
The Chief Minister stated he has instructed the Mysuru police to strictly examine the case as there are numerous complaints in opposition to Ravi. It’s stated that he’s extremely linked individual and the police will discover out his previous and would take strict authorized motion in opposition to him, Bommai stated. When requested why no case reached the logical finish within the final 20 years, the Chief Minister stated this time the State authorities has taken the criticism in opposition to him ‘very critically’.
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“We are going to get all of the circumstances in opposition to him investigated and get him punished for them,” Bommai stated. When requested in regards to the Congress sharing the movies and audios displaying Ravi concerned within the ‘switch enterprise’, the Chief Minister stated every little thing might be investigated. “He was seen with many former Chief Ministers as properly. That is how he created a picture for himself. Lately something will be created on WhatsApp however an in depth investigation will reveal what sort of bodily transaction he was concerned in,” Bommai defined.
He additionally clarified that there was no query of defending anybody and stated every little thing will come out. To a query that former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy launched an audio, Bommai stated it is going to additionally develop into part of the investigation.
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He clarified that mere chatting with somebody doesn’t make him an accused. In regards to the Congress cost that Vidhana Soudha has develop into a ‘Procuring Mall’ with ₹10.5 lakh money discovered from a Public Works Division engineer inside Vidhana Soudha, Bommai stated in 2019, ₹22 lakh was discovered from the Congress MLA Puttarangashetty’s workplace.
The Chief Minister alleged that the Congress had turned Vidhana Soudha into their financial institution. Bommai additionally sought to know why the investigation in opposition to Puttarangashetty didn’t occur. “Puttarangashetty was neither probed nor his assertion recorded. The case was handed over to the ACB, which closed it. These folks (Congress) coated it up. They don’t have the ethical proper to discuss others,” the Chief Minister stated.