"An Unknown Woman Has Done This To Me": Behind Karnataka Seer's Death, A Honeytrap
NDTV
Karnataka Lingayat seer suicide: Four videos are doing the rounds, say investigators, as woman screen-recorded private moments with 45-year-old seer
The 45-year-old Lingayat seer in Karnataka who died by suicide on Monday was “honeytrapped” and being blackmailed over “obscene video calls” with a woman, police today said. "Two names in the suicide note are connected to the mutt," investigators have told NDTV.
“The private moments of the woman (unidentified so far) and the seer were captured by the woman using her phone's screen-recording function,” the sources said.
“An unknown woman has done this to me,” reads a line in the suicide note, according to a senior officer who did not want to be named as further probe is still on.
The seer, Basavalinga Swami, was found hanging from his prayer room's window grille at Kanchugal Bande Mutt, which he headed, in Karnataka's Ramanagara district on Monday morning. His suicide note mentioned blackmail and harassment by "some people who wanted to remove him from his position", police had said yesterday.
