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Activist Dinesh Kallahalli fails to personally withdraw police complaint against Ramesh Jarkiholi

As of now, the mercurial Kallahalli has no plans of going to the police to withdraw the complaint
Last Updated 08 March 2021, 18:38 IST

Dinesh Kallahalli, the social activist who created a sensation last week with a CD involving former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, has failed to personally take back the police complaint as he had announced on Sunday.

On Monday, Kallahalli sent a lawyer to the Cubbon Park police station to withdraw the complaint. The police, however, asked the lawyer to come with Kallahalli and tell him to personally withdraw the complaint.

A senior officer said that only if Kalahalli appeared before the Cubbon Park police and gave a valid reason for withdrawing the complaint would they take the further necessary action. Police would have to take his statement and consult legal experts on closing the case, he added.

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But as of now, the mercurial Kallahalli has no plans of going to the police to withdraw the complaint.

Speaking to DH, he said that he would send his lawyer to the police again (for withdrawing the complaint). “But if the police still insist on my personal appearance, I will consult my lawyer and take a call,” he said.

Claiming that he faced no pressure or fear to fight the case, Kallahalli said that he was “greatly embarrassed” by the former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy’s statement on a supposed money deal. “I don’t want to take such allegations and fight the case,” he said.

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(Published 08 March 2021, 17:07 IST)

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