Setback for seer: CID files ‘B’ report in blackmail case
- | Thursday | 23rd February, 2017
The seer and his followers, who are engaged in a prolonged legal battle with Premalatha and her family, termed the 'B' report unfortunate and said they would challenge it in court. He had alleged that the accused were blackmailing the seer and threatening artists slated to perform at the Ramakatha function during Chatursmasa in Kekkar village in Honnavar taluk. After her release from jail, Premalatha too reiterated the allegations against the seer.After an uproar that Honnavar police were acting under the pressure of the mutt, the case was transferred to the CID. KARWAR: In a major setback to Raghaveshwar Bharathi Swami , the pontiff of Shri Ramachandrapur Mutt, the CID filed a 'B' report in a Honnavar court in Uttara Kannada on Tuesday, in the blackmail case filed against singer Premalatha, her husband Diwakar Shastry and her brother-in-law Narayan Shastry The CID, after thorough investigation, concluded that the complaint filed by the mutt is false. Later they were lodged in the District Jail in Karwar.
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