BJP MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi, who needed to step down as Karnataka Water Resources Minister earlier this month after TV channels performed a video CD allegedly that includes him and a younger girl, faces the prospect of arrest. The girl, who accused him of sexual assault and harassment, recorded an announcement Tuesday earlier than a Justice of the Peace in Bengaluru.
The girl, untraceable since March 2, the day the video CD was performed by TV channels, appeared earlier than a Justice of the Peace Tuesday afternoon after being dropped at the courtroom by her legal professionals.
On March 26, the Bengaluru police, performing on a grievance despatched to them by the lady by her advocates, had registered a grievance of assault and sexual activity by an official in authority beneath IPC sections 354 and 376 (c) towards Jarkiholi.
In her grievance to the Cubbon Park police, the lady alleged that Jarkiholi coerced her right into a sexual relationship by providing her a authorities job, and that he later reneged on the promise.
She alleged that Jarkiholi enticed her into sexually express conversations on video calls and later lured her to fulfill him at his house in Bengaluru the place he compelled her into sexual activity.
After she recorded her assertion Tuesday, her lawyer, Ok Jagadish, mentioned: “We have fulfilled our promise to produce the victim in court to provide her statement. The police should now fulfil their duty and arrest the accused who is roaming around freely.”
Following the courtroom look, the lady was taken by her legal professionals to the police technical cell for a voice pattern and statements in different instances which have been filed over the video CD telecast by TV channels.
A Special Investigation Team of the state police can be Jarkiholi’s grievance of blackmail and extortion within the CD matter, and a grievance by the lady’s household claiming that she had been kidnapped.
Jarkiholi has mentioned that the video recordings are the results of a failed try and extort and blackmail him utilizing a morphed video CD. He claims {that a} “Mahan Nayak” in Karnataka who’s a political rival is behind the entire episode, and that the case is a significant conspiracy.
The dad and mom of the lady have alleged that their daughter was being compelled to do sure issues by a bunch that was holding her captive. They declare that their daughter advised them that the CD recording is a pretend. The household accused state Congress chief D Ok Shivakumar, a rival of Jarkiholi, of orchestrating the incident.
Shivakumar has denied hyperlinks to the younger girl and has claimed that the household of the lady have been “saying things for their own convenience”.
“Her lawyers have said that the victimised woman has given a statement with no coercion and interference before a magistrate. Why has the state not arrested the rape accused as yet? What does this say?” the state Congress mentioned on its official Twitter deal with Tuesday.
