Bengaluru:
The Karnataka police, BJP MLA N., who represented RR Nagar assembly constituency in Bengaluru on charges of orchestrating a gang rape of a party worker. An FIR has been registered against Munirathana.
The RMC Yard Police filed an FIR in Bengaluru based on the complaint of a 40 -year -old victim.
In addition to MLA Munirathna, FIR named its colleagues Vasanthha, Channkeshw, Lotus and an unknown person as co-accused in the case.
According to the FIR, the police recorded the victim’s statement in a hospital in Bangalore, where he is currently undergoing treatment.
The victim alleged that in 2013, Munirathana accused her of prostitution and dropped her out of personal vengeance.
On his release, he claimed that the MLA again targeted him that his colleagues implicated him in a murder case, resulting in another imprisonment.
He was granted bail and released within a month.
On June 11, 2023, at 7 pm, the second and fourth accused allegedly visited the victim’s house, promising that the pending cases against him would be withdrawn if he would accompany him to Munirathana’s office.
The complainant alleged that he was sexually assaulted in Muniratna’s office.
The FIR read: “The MLA raped by the first, second and third accused. Later, Munirathana urinated her face and injected her with a substance, telling her that she would suffer to the rest of life.”
The FIR says that the MLA warned him not to reveal the details of the incident and instructed his colleagues to leave him home.
On 14 January 2025, the victim began to experience severe stomach pain. After a blood test, doctors informed him that he had contracted a virus. This diagnosis was confirmed at Victoria Hospital.
Later medical consultations showed that she was suffering from an incurable disease, according to the FIR.
Unable to bear the pain, the victim allegedly consumed sleeping pills on the night of 19 May. A neighbor found him and admitted him to the hospital.
The police have registered an FIR under IPC section 376D (gang rape), 270 (probability of spreading the possibility of fatal act), 323 (voluntarily hurt), 354 (to offend the attack or criminal force), 504 (deliberate insult), 506 (criminal dryness), a woman).
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