Hennur police file ‘B report’ in BJP worker’s death, clean chit to MLAs Ponnanna and Manthar Gowda

Practically eight months after a BJP employee from Kodagu Vinay Somaiah ended his life in Bengaluru, blaming a neighborhood Congress employee and two Congress MLAs of Kodagu in his dying word, the Bengaluru Metropolis Police have lately filed a ‘B report’ within the case giving a clear chit to MLA for Madikeri A.S. Ponnanna, MLA for Virajpet Manthar Gowda, and others.

The B report cites an absence of proof to substantiate the allegations, because the grounds for the report.

Vinay Somaiah was discovered lifeless on the agency he was working at in Nagavara. Within the dying word, he alleged that he was booked in a politically motivated case and regardless of a keep on the FIR from the Excessive Court docket, police continued to harass him and threatened to open a rowdy sheet towards him on the insistence of MLAs Mr. Ponnanna and Mr. Gowda. He additionally named native Congress employee Thennira Myna, who was the complainant within the case. Vinay was the administrator of a WhatsApp group through which a member had posted an allegedly inflammatory put up towards Mr. Ponnanna.

Within the B report filed earlier than the jurisdictional court docket, the Hennur police mentioned that regardless of forensic evaluation of the telephones of the accused and their name data, they didn’t discover any proof to substantiate the allegations that they referred to as and threatened the deceased as alleged.

The police mentioned they analysed the decision data and the telephones for 2 months previous the dying of Vinay Somaiah and located no calls, WhatsApp chats, or any type of communication that substantiated the allegations.