"Efforts On To Shut Case": Karnataka Congress Leader On Sex Tape Scandal

On the statement of the woman's parents against him before the Special Investigation Team probing the case, DK Shivakumar said they had complained against him, after which she also issued a statement to the media.

A day after the family of the woman in the purported sex video allegedly involving former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi blamed him for the scandal, Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar on Sunday said all efforts are on to close the case and the law will take its own course. "....the law will take its own course. All kinds of efforts are being made..they are bringing people and making them give statements. Let the government do whatever they want, but I just want to tell the police that they should safeguard their respect" (do the probe impartially), Mr Shivakumar said. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, he alleged that efforts were on to close the case. "Let them do it." On the statement of the woman's parents against him before the Special Investigation Team probing the case, Mr Shivakumar said they had complained against him, after which she also issued a statement to the media.