An anti-corruption activist group has filed a criticism with the Karnataka Lokayukta police towards the media adviser to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for allegedly trying to bribe journalists at outstanding newspapers in Bengaluru with costly Diwali items, together with in some situations, alleged money handouts of Rs 1 lakh.
The chief minister’s workplace has not reacted to the allegations.
The Janadhikara Sangharsha Parishat (JSP), a gaggle concerned in anti-corruption campaigns, filed a criticism with the Lokayukta police on Friday alleging that chief reporters at a outstanding English and Kannada day by day got bribes within the guise of Diwali items by the media coordinator to CM Bommai.
“We’re conscious of a severe situation of bribes being distributed to chief reporters of a number of media homes by the chief minister of Karnataka by way of his media coordinator,” says the criticism filed by the JSP with the Lokayukta police looking for an investigation underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
In accordance with the criticism, the chief reporter of a outstanding Bengaluru-based day by day obtained Rs 1 lakh from the media coordinator and reported the matter instantly to the chief editor/CEO “who suggested him to return the cash”. The criticism additional says that the chief reporter of a outstanding Kannada day by day related to the English day by day was additionally given cash within the guise of Diwali items and the matter was reported to the administration and the cash was returned.
The chief reporter of the Kannada day by day has despatched a letter to the chief minister “expressing robust condemnation” and “has obtained an apology” from the workplace of the CM, the criticism states.
“This quantities to unethical, immoral utilization of cash by the CM of Karnataka in order to unduly affect the media to work in his authorities’s favour,” states the criticism by the JSP.