Bengaluru: In a dramatic development, the Karnataka Police filed an FIR against Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, alleging ‘extortion’ through electoral bonds.
Tilak Nagar police in Bengaluru filed the FIR in accordance with the orders of the Special Court of MLAs/MPs.
FM Sitharaman has been designated as the primary culprit in the investigation. The second and third accused are ED officers, and the third and fourth are Central BJP office bearers. The fourth accused is former Karnataka BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, while the fifth is B.Y. Vijayendra, the state BJP president. The sixth accused are state BJP office bearers.
The police have filed a FIR under IPC Sections 384 (extortion), 120B (criminal conspiracy), and 34 (acts committed by multiple people in furtherance of a common objective).
The Bengaluru Special Court has issued a FIR against FM Sitharaman and others for the crime of extortion using electoral bonds.
In this case, Adarsh R Iyer, co-president of Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishat, is the complainant. The Special Court directed that an FIR be filed on Friday.
The claimant accused FM Sitaraman and others of extortion via electoral bonds.
The court ordered that an FIR be filed with the jurisdictional SHO of Tilak Nagar Police Station in Bengaluru. The next hearing date is October 10.
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The complainant has submitted that the first and second, in connivance with the third and fourth accused and many others who are holding constitutional posts, CEOs and MDs of national MNC and TNC corporate companies committed extortion under the guise and garb of electoral bonds and benefited to the tune of more than Rs 8,000 crores.
The complainant has mentioned that the prime accused, with the clandestine aid and support of officials, facilitated the extortion of thousands of crores for the benefit of the third accused at the national level and the fourth accused in the state of Karnataka.
“It appears the prime accused press the service of officials named to conduct raids, seizures and arrests of various corporate companies, their CEOs, MDs, etc. Fearing the raids, many corporates and moneybags were coerced and coaxed to buy electoral bonds worth several crores, which were encashed by the accused,” Adarsh Iyer stated in his complaint.
The petitioner alleged that the entire “extortion racket” under the garb of electoral bonds has been orchestrated hand in glove with officials of the BJP at various levels.
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–IANS
