Made sense of: Karnataka's Cut Money Scandal A Minister And A Suicid

Made sense of: Karnataka's "Cut Money Scandal", A Minister And A Suicid

The case includes common worker for hire Santosh Patil, 37, who purportedly passed on by self destruction on Tuesday. His body was found in a cabin in Udupi.
Bengaluru:Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa is trapped in an enormous contention over the self destruction of a worker for hire who accused him in his last telephone messages, claiming debasement. The resistance has requested his capture more than the "40% cut cash embarrassment".

What is the situation?

The case includes common project worker Santosh Patil, 37, who supposedly kicked the bucket by self destruction on Tuesday. His body was found in a hotel in Udupi.

In WhatsApp messages to his companions and top innovators in the public authority, Santosh Patil had named Mr Eshwarappa and said he was "exclusively capable" for his demise.

"I'm taking this choice, keeping my goals to the side. I demand with collapsed hands to our Prime Minister, Chief Minister, our adored lingayat pioneer BSY (previous Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa) and every other person to stretch out some assistance to my better half and children," the project worker had written in his last message.

Mr Eshwarappa, Rural Development Minister in the Karnataka bureau, comes up against indictments of driving Santosh Patil to self destruction. His partners Basavraj and Ramesh have additionally been named in the FIR (First Information Report) recorded on a protest by Santosh Patil's sibling.

What did Santosh Kumar claim?

Santosh Kumar blamed the pastor and his partners for requesting 40% "cut cash" or commission to supposedly clear his ₹ 4 crore bill for work he had accomplished for the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj division.

His sibling Prashanth Patil has said in his protest that Santosh Patil was granted an agreement to fabricate streets, storm water channels and asphalts in the town Hindalaga.

Mr Patil said the priest gave the thumbs up to him and asked him to begin work without agonizing over the financial plan.

Santosh Patil had put his cash in the undertaking and the bill for the work was neglected. The project worker affirmed that he had visited serve Eshwarappa a few times and had begged him to give him the cash.

Yet, his nearby assistants Basavaraj and Ramesh were requesting 40% commission, the grumbling asserted.

Eshwarappa's counter

The Minister said Santosh Patil had just asserted he had finished the work. He delivered a division letter of March 28 saying no work request was given.

Did somebody casually request that Santosh take at work? For what reason was the undertaking charged orally?

What's going on with the focal authority of the BJP?

The BJP at the middle is "miserable" with the debasement accusation and numerous pioneers demand that the party has a zero resistance strategy for defilement.

Mr Eshwarappa can be approached to stop over the charges, sources say.

Santosh Patil had composed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.

Will Mr. Eshwarappa leave?

The clergyman said he will "most certainly not leave". "Assuming they are requesting my abdication, I won't give one," he affirmed.

Mr Eshwarappa addressed how messages on WhatsApp could be dealt with like self destruction notes - no genuine note was found close to the body, he called attention to.

On the charge that he had requested a portion of Santosh Patil's income, the pastor said 'There was no work request, hence no inquiry of cut cash. (Sandeep) Patil needed installment without standards - how might installment be delivered without work request?'

"Murder, not self destruction": Congress

The Congress said the debasement case should be researched "past Eshwarappa".

"It was murder, not self destruction," said Congress pioneer DK Shivakumar.

One more Congress pioneer, previous Chief Minister Siddramaiah brought up that previous home priest KJ George confronted comparative charges in 2017.