Bengaluru, March 7 : Hours after social activist Dinesh Kallahalli withdrew his complaint against former Karnataka Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi in the sleaze CD case, the latter’s brother Balachandra Jarkiholi sought a CBI probe into it as it was a honey trap with international ramifications.
“As my brother became a victim of honey trap and forced to resign on March 3 after a fake CD showing him intimately with an unidentified woman went viral on social media on March 2, we want a CBI probe to expose those behind the sordid episode,” Balachandra told reporters here.
Balachandra, younger to Ramesh, is a legislator from Arabhavi assembly segment in Belagavi district in the state’s north west region and chairman of the state-run Karnataka Milk Federation.
Ramesh defected to the ruling BJP in November 2019 from the Congress and won the Gokak assembly seat in the same district in the December 5, 2019 by-election.
He revolted against the 14-month Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S)-Congress coalition government along with 16 other lawmakers of both parties in July 2019.
Resignation of 14 then Congress and 3 JD-S lawmakers led to fall of the 14-month-old government on July 23 after its chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy lost the trust vote in the Assembly on the same night.
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