A day after a Bengaluru-based industrialist, Pradeep, committed suicide by shooting himself in the Ramnagar district of the state, the Karnataka Police on Monday, have registered an FIR against senior BJP MLA Arvind Limbavali.
47-year-old Pradeep, a resident of Amalipura near HSR Layout in Bengaluru, who had shot himself in the head inside his car, had left a death note naming BJP MLA Arvind Limbavali and others.
Mahadevapura constituency BJP MLA and former minister Arvind Limbavali, G. Ramesh Reddy, K. Gopi, Dr. Jayaram Reddy, Raghav Bhat and Somaiah were also mentioned in the suicide note.
Before taking the extreme step, Pradeep, according to the police, had gone to a resort near Ramnagar, a neighbouring town of Bengaluru, with his family to celebrate the New Year on Sunday.
Filing the FIR against Arvind Limbavali and other accused, Kaggalipura Police initiated an investigation into the case and are trying to retrieve the call details of the deceased.
On Monday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the procedure has already been taken up as per the law in the case. “In future also, action will be taken as per the law,” he assured.
Preliminary investigations suggest that wife of the deceased had lodged a complaint against him charging him of threatening with a pistol suspecting her character. The police are working on that lead too.
However, in his suicide note, Pradeep had urged the police to initiate action against all of the accused he had mentioned and held them responsible for his death. The deceased also mentioned their mobile numbers in the note.
The note mentioned that the accused took Rs 1.50 crore from the deceased in connection with opening a resort. They had promised that they would make him a partner in the business.
“The partners have betrayed me. I was supposed to get Rs 2.50 crore. BJP MLA Arvind Limbavali attempted to compromise and I got only Rs 9 lakh. After that, MLA Arvind Limbavali also did not help me,” the suicide note says.