The Karnataka Police have arrested three individuals, together with a 21-year-old lady and a seer, in reference to the suicide of Lingayat seer Basavalingeshwara Swamy of Kanchugal Bande Mutt.
Ramanagara superintendent of police Santosh Babu Sunday recognized the arrested as Neelambike, Kannur mutt seer Mruthyunjaya Swamy and Mahadevaiah, a retired instructor who’s a practising advocate. In response to police sources, Basavalingeshwara was reportedly honey-trapped and later blackmailed by the Kannur mutt and Mahadevaiah for cash. Neelambike, mentioned to be an engineering scholar, was allegedly near Basavalingeshwara, they mentioned.
Basavalingeshwara, 44, was discovered hanging in his room within the mutt at Magadi taluk of Ramanagara district, 50 km away from Bengaluru, on October 24 early morning.
Basavalingeshwara and Mruthyunjaya had been cousins earlier than they became seers, the police mentioned. “There have been loads of land litigations between the Kannur and Bande mutts which led to variations between the seers,” mentioned the police.
Santosh Babu mentioned the plan to take revenge in opposition to Basavalingeshwara was hatched in February this yr and it’s suspected {that a} video was made in April utilizing which the seer was being harassed. “We’re but to determine whether or not the seer was honey-trapped. Presently, we have now acquired three movies,” he added.
A police officer mentioned Neelambike lived in Doddaballapur and Mahadevaiah lived in Tumakuru. The Bande mutt seer got here involved with Neelambike and so they had been conversing over the telephone. Later, Mruthyunjayaand Mahadevaiah got here to find out about it and lured Neelambike with cash to lure the seer,” the officer added.
The police mentioned they had been but to query the folks whose names had been talked about within the loss of life be aware