Karnataka’s former CM Siddaramaiah to visit family of contractor who ended his life
The Hindu
The deceased contractor Santosh Patil had accused Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa of corruption
Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah will be visiting the house of Santosh Patil, a contractor, BJP leader and national secretary of Hindu Yuva Vahini, who was found dead in Udupi a few months after accusing Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa of corruption.
Mr. Siddaramaiah will be accompanied by senior Congress leaders, including Yemakanmardi MLA Satish Jarkiholi, party sources said on April 13.
Congress leaders have been demanding the resignation of Mr. Eshwarappa to ‘ensure a proper investigation’.
In the morning, Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani had visited the Patil family. Later, he told journalists that he had come in his personal capacity and not as a representative of the Karnataka Government.
Mr. Nirani said that Santosh Patil’s relatives had requested him to help the contractor’s wife Jayashree Patil secure a government job. “I will speak to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai about it,” he said.
“The BJP high command may have instructed Mr. Eshwarappa to resign, but I don’t have any information,” he said.
Observing that sexual exploitation of patients by a medical practitioner will erode relationship of trust between a doctor and a patient, the High Court of Karnataka has declined to quash investigation into a criminal case registered against a 33-year-old city-based doctor for allegedly making sexual overtures to a 28-year-old woman patient.
The State Cabinet met on Thursday for the first time after the declaration of the Lok Sabha results and discussed the status of tender proposals of various departments and found that no action had been taken to float tenders with regard to 36% of the proposals (53) that were approved during the last financial year (2023-24).