Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) police has given a notice to former Mayor, R. Sampat Raj who is absconding, because for his alleged role in the Bengaluru riots.
Talking to IANS, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), B. R. Venugopal, stated the police have pasted notices at both of Raj’s residences requesting that he shows up before the police.
The ACP included, “We have formed special teams to search for Raj.”
But, a police source said sticking notices at the premises of the accused will facilitate his prosecution.
If Raj does not reply to the notices, the authority added, he will be assumed to purposefully avoiding police questioning.
The authority stated, “Earlier, when we wanted to question him, he got himself admitted to a hospital on the pretext of being Covid-19 positive and finally escaped from there. It will help build a case against him,” the police said, adding, Raj had avoided the second round of questioning since he himself appeared during the first round of questioning in August.”
The authority included, “We have pasted notices at his Pulikeshinagar residence and sister’s house in Chamarajpet.”
Before the Bengaluru by-elections and after almost 23 days, ex-Mayor Raj escaped from the hospital on October 7.
The CCB police had submitted over a 400-page preliminary charge sheet against the accused Raj, an ex-Congress Councilor from D. J. Halli, accountable for instigating a vicious mob setting Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy’s home on fire on August 11. Murthy is a Congress MLA from Pulikeshnagar.
The alleged derogatory Facebook post by R. Naveen, the Pulikeshnagar Congress MLA’s nephew, prompted a furious mob gathering at K. J. Halli and D. J. Halli police headquarters regions, demanding the arrest of Naveen.
The irritated mob depended on arson and looting after the police postponed taking any action against the accused Naveen.
The furious mob additionally set the MLA’s home on fire lastly the police resorted to firing to disperse the crowd.
The riots which started the evening of August 11 finished in the early hours of the following day however not before police started shooting and three individuals were killed.
More than 400 individuals were taken into custody in the case and CCB had registered a charge sheet not long ago in which the police had accessed Raj for instigating the mob against the MLA Srinivas Akhanda Murthy to end his political career.
