The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday ordered issue of notices to the State government, city police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a petition filed by a city-based builder seeking a probe by the CBI into the “suspicious” death of his son.
Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri passed the order on a petition filed by C.R. Gopala Krishna, who has complained that the city police were probing the case allegedly with an aim to “exonerate” the accused persons, who have contacts with top bureaucrats and politicians.
The petitioner’s second son, Ramkiran, was found dead on July 28, 2013 and the police had initially registered it as a case of “unnatural death”.
However, a few months later a murder case was registered based on the petitioner’s complaint after forensic report indicated that Ramkiran died owing to circulatory failure as a result of consumption of a substance containing mercuric ions.
The petitioner alleged that his daughter-in-law, Shalini, and her father, Kashinath, also a builder, were allegedly responsible for his son’s death.
Ramkiran and Shalini married in July 2009 in Bangalore and moved to Australia. The couple, however, returned to India in February 2010 following pressure from Shalini and her parents, the petitioner said and claimed that Shalini did not spend much time with her husband as she stayed at her parental house.
Besides, the petitioner alleged that Shalini’s father Kashinath, with whom he had partnered for some projects, had allegedly forged and fabricated certain documents subsequent to the death of his son to make wrongful gain to the tune of crores of rupees.
Kashinath and his wife were unhappy with the petitioner, who is said to have refused some of their business and property-related proposals, claimed in the petition.
