Karnataka Police have registered a case of homicide in reference to the demise of Chandrashekar, the nephew of the Chief Minister’s political secretary and Honnali MLA M P Renukacharya, officers mentioned. The BJP MLA has raised allegations of negligence on the a part of the police within the case.
A homicide case was registered by Honnali police after Chandrashekar’s father M P Ramesh filed a grievance expressing the suspicion that he was tortured and murdered, but it surely was made it to seem like an accident.
Chandrashekar, 24, the son of Renukacharya’s brother, went lacking on October 30. His physique was discovered on November 3 in a decomposed state inside a automobile that was fished out of a canal close to Honnali in Davangere district.
In his grievance, Ramesh has alleged that there have been damage marks on Chandrashekar’s physique and different marks which indicated that his fingers and legs could have been tied up. It additionally appeared like somebody had hit his head and ears with a weapon. “Somebody killed my son and crashed the automobile, preserving the useless physique inside it, and pushed it into the canal to make it appear to be an accident,” the grievance mentioned.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned Sunday that the case is being investigated from all angles.
On Saturday, Renukacharya and his supporters went to Honnali police station searching for to see the automobile through which the physique was discovered. Expressing his displeasure over the negligent perspective of the police, the BJP MLA requested, “If my son (Renukacharya refers to Chandrashekhar as his son) can’t be protected, what’s the plight of the frequent public?”
Whereas he insisted on checking the automobile, the police knowledgeable him that solely officers with the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), who’re helping within the probe, will likely be allowed to see the automobile.
The MLA then continued to claim that his followers discovered the physique and never the police. “It’s a pre-planned homicide. Earlier than killing my son, he was tortured and killed. There may be clear negligence on the a part of the police.”
The police have registered a case underneath IPC sections 302 (homicide), 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence, or giving false info to display screen offender) and 427 (mischief inflicting injury). They’re awaiting the autopsy report back to proceed with additional investigation.