A key lacking suspect in a case of an alleged try to extort cash from former Karnataka minister Ramesh Jarkiholi has issued a video assertion from an undisclosed location, claiming that he had interacted with the younger girl within the purported intercourse CD, who can be lacking, on greater than a dozen events. He claimed that she informed him about her grievances.
Naresh Gowda, a former journalist who labored for a number of native TV channels and is taken into account by police as a key determine within the case, additionally claimed that he was not linked to the alleged efforts to extort and blackmail Jarkiholi, however knew the lady and was conscious of her grievances.
In the video, Gowda stated he’s in hiding as a result of he fears being framed within the case.
“It is true that the girl is known to me. She approached me through another person because I am a journalist,” he acknowledged.
According to the video assertion, Gowda interacted with the lady on 15 to twenty events over the Jarkiholi problem however ultimately bought concerned in different private points and didn’t pursue it. The girl later known as him and requested him about progress in “getting her justice”, he stated within the video.
Gowda’s video comes quickly after the household of the lacking girl filed a police grievance on March 16 in Belagavi, saying that she had been kidnapped by unknown individuals.
Meanwhile, former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday reiterated that the CD case entails a Rs 5-crore extortion try on the previous minister. “I had stated earlier that this is a Rs 5-crore deal and that a youth called Naresh is involved. It is all playing out now.,” he stated.
Police suspect Gowda had a key position within the launch of the CD. Jarkiholi resigned as minister on March 3, a day after TV channels performed the CD.
