Basavalinga Swami, 45, was discovered hanging at Kanchugal Bande Mutt, which he headed, final Monday.
Ramanagara (Karnataka):
Three individuals, together with a lady from Bengaluru, have been detained in reference to Lingayat seer Basavalinga Swami’s dying by suicide, information company PTI has reported quoting the police.
They’re being questioned for allegedly abetting the suicide as his suicide notice mentioned he was being “blackmailed” and “harassed” over some non-public movies.
“An unknown lady has carried out this to me,” mentioned a line within the suicide notice, sources within the probe group have instructed NDTV.
The 45-year-old seer was discovered hanging from his prayer room’s window grille at Kanchugal Bande Mutt, which he headed, in a village in Ramanagara district final Monday.
He was “honeytrapped” and being blackmailed over “obscene video calls” with a lady, police had mentioned. “Two names within the suicide notice are related to the mutt,” investigators told NDTV.
“Personal moments of the girl and the seer had been captured by the girl utilizing her telephone’s screen-recording operate,” sources had mentioned.
“We’re investigating each angle attainable,” the district police chief had mentioned to questions, “There are 4 movies doing the rounds. These movies are of obscene nature.”
The seer had taken over the 400-year-old mutt’s chiefship on the age of 20 in 1997, and not too long ago celebrated the silver jubilee.
The Lingayat sect, which has plenty of centres in Karnataka and a few neighbouring states, kinds a robust 17 per cent of Karnataka’s inhabitants, giving it heft throughout spheres, notably in politics.
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