New Delhi, 13 April 2022

As per news report of NDTV, Karnataka minister KS Eshwarappa has been named in a police case in connection with the suicide of a contractor, who was found dead in a lodge in Udupi yesterday after accusing him of corruption. The First Information Report or FIR accuses the minister of driving contractor Santosh Patil to suicide. Mr Eshwarappa's two associates, Basavaraj and Ramesh, have also been named in the FIR. Santosh Patil had accused the minister's associates of demanding a 40 per cent commission to clear his bill for the ₹ 4 crore work he had carried out in Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department. In his purported suicide note, he alleged that Mr Eshwarappa was responsible for his death. "RDPR minister KS Eshwarappa is solely responsible for my death. I am taking this decision, keeping my aspirations aside," he wrote.

Source - NDTV

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