Monday 8 September 2014

Case of rape and cheating: Railway minister's son gets anticipatory bail

BANGALORE: In major relief for railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda's son Karthik — declared absconding — was granted anticipatory bail in a case relating to alleged rape, kidnap and cheating of a Kannada starlet.

The relief came to Karthik Gowda three days after a magistrate court issued arrest warrant against him with the police declaring him an absconder and forming teams to trace him even as the sessions court heard his anticipatory bail plea.


Sessions court judge Mudigoudar, allowing the anticipatory bail plea, directed Karthik to execute a personal bond for Rs two lakh along with two solvent sureties and cooperate with police in the probe into the complaint by the starlet who claims to have married him.

The judge had, on Saturday last, posted the case for today for his order.


READ ALSO


Arrest warrant issued against Karthik Gowda


Karthik Gowda has fled, will be arrested soon


".....we have lot of evidences, so we will challenge this order in the high court on Wednesday. We have decided to go for cancellation of bail on Wednesday," counsel for model-turned-actress Akarsh S Kanade told reporters.


Opposing the bail plea of Gowda's son, the actress's lawyer had told the court earlier that he should not be given relief as he is a very influential person who may destroy evidence.




Karthik Gowda (File photo)


On September 5, the eighth additional chief metropolitan magistrate court had issued an arrest warrant against Karthik.


The actress had claimed Karthik and she got married at Gowda's residence in Mangalore in June in the presence of the driver of Gowda's son.


She has made several claims in the case giving different twists and turns with her purported telephonic conversation with Karthik being released to the media.


The actress had made the claim about the marriage on the day Karthik got engaged to another woman at Kushalnagar in Kodagu district.


Her allegations caused severe embarrassment to the Union minister who has maintained law will take its own course.


At a press conference in Delhi to highlight his ministry's achievements in the first 100 days of Narendra Modi government, D V Sadanand Gowda said "law will take its own course".


"I have spoken about it several times. Law will take its own course. I have nothing more to say," he said.


Former advocate general BV Acharya appeared for Karthik. To a question whether Karthik will appear before the investigating officer, Shahul Ahmed, who assisted Acharya said, "There was no date given as such and as per the order we will abide by the court's conditions and as soon as possible he will be appearing."



http://ift.tt/1CItHZL Gowda,DV Sadananda Gowda,case of rape


Stay updated on the go with The Times of India’s mobile apps. Click here to download it for your device.





Categories:

0 comments:

Post a Comment