For Lingayat Seer's Death Over "Honeytrap", Bengaluru Woman Among 3 Detained

Videos from the 45-year-old Lingayat mutt head in Ramanagara district are being investigated, says report quoting cops

Three people, including a woman from Bengaluru, have been detained in connection with Lingayat seer Basavalinga Swami's death by suicide, news agency PTI has reported quoting the police.

They are being questioned for allegedly abetting the suicide as his suicide note said he was being "blackmailed" and "harassed" over some private videos. 

“An unknown woman has done this to me,” said a line in the suicide note, sources in the probe team have told NDTV.

The 45-year-old seer was found hanging from his prayer room's window grille at Kanchugal Bande Mutt, which he headed, in a village in Ramanagara district last Monday.