Reddy is currently out on bail.Â
Former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy who married off his daughter in a lavish wedding by spending over Rs 500 crore is now in a soup after his driver, in a suicide note, accused the BJP leader of money laundering and owning illegal property worth over Rs.100 Crore.
According to the suicide note written by Ramesh Gowda to the special land acquisition officer Bheema Nayak in Bangalore, he says of receiving threat calls because of his proximity to Reddy, mainly because of his knowledge about how Reddy converted Rs. 100 crore black money into white.
According to the postmortem report, the cause of death is the poison that he consumed on Wednesday in Maddur.
The death of his driver comes at a time when Janardhan Reddy has come under the scanner of the Income Tax department and the party authorities for the outrageous spending during his daughter’s wedding in Bangalore that eventually cost him Rs. 100 crore.
According to media reports, over 50,000 people attended the marriage function of Reddy’s daughter which also includes many BJP leaders despite getting strict orders from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to skip the lavish wedding.
Janardan Reddy is a former BJP minister from Karnataka and was arrested in 2012 for his involvement in 2012 illegal mining case. He conducted his daughter’s wedding while he came out on bail.
According to a report by CNN-News18, Reddy, who is known as the mining baron, spent Rs 500 crore on the wedding. The Income Tax department had visited Reddy’s residence in Bellary after the wedding.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister has said that he doesn’t know anything and that inquiry will reveal the truth.
In the suicide note accessed by CNN-News18 Ramesh has alleged that Bhima Naik was holding the following properties.
Here is the translated version of the letter.
About Bhima Naik, KAS, disproportionate assets and corruption
- Â Â He has illegal property worth over Rs.100 Crore
- Â Â Has bought a bungalow at Sadashivanagar in Belgaum when he was Tahasildar
-   Has bought a house at Hospet in Bellary district after taking loan from Bank Of India. Size 20 Gunta plot
- Â Â Has bought 30 acres of agricultural land at Hagaribommanahalli in Bellary district
-   10 Acre land at Mariyammanahalli in Bellary district
-   Bought Rs.5 Crore worth land from a man called Anil Jain
- Â Â Has own house at Attur, Yelahanka
- Â Â Has an IOC petrol pump in the name of his brother Krishna Naik
-   Has two high end cars in brother’s name
- One car in another brother Arjun’s name
- Has paid Rs.25 lakh bribe to Revenue Minister’s PS Nagaraju to close a departmental inquiry against him
- He has bought jewellery worth over Rs.1 crore at Krishnaiah Chetty & Sons. Has bought a diamond ring worth Rs.50 lakhs (Customer ID 142565)
- Has bought clothes worth Rs.50 lakhs from a Commercial Street shop
- Has bought clothes worth Rs.50 lakhs from Sudarshan Silk House
- Has done lot of corruption at various places
- Using my account number he has transferred a lot of money to relatives
- On 28/10/2016 he had met B Sriramulu and Janardhana Reddy at Parijatha Guest House. Kotresh Naik of Hadagali was also with them. Had agreed to pay Rs.25 crore to Sriramulu and Reddy for BJP Assembly ticket from Hagaribommanahalli in 2018 assembly election.
- On 15/11/2016 – Bhima Naik met Reddy at Taj Hotel. Told me that he had given Rs.25 crore white money to Reddy.
- He has visited Sriramulu’s house several times in his car – KA-05 MT 4449 and KA 03 MU 8964
- He has converted about Rs.100 Crore old notes into Rs.50,100 and 2000 currencies for 20% commission.
Since I knew about laundering I was threatened and assaulted. Even the goondas were sent to attack me.
My sister’s son Manoj Gowda should lit my funeral pyre. I am grateful to all my friends. I hold Bhima Naik and his driver Mohammed responsible for my death.
This death note is written by me in my own hand.
Ramesh K C
Bengaluru
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