Karnataka’s BJP MLA Munirathna, with his two assistants, threatened a woman to kill her son if she didn’t strip in front of them. Continued to force her even after the woman’s many pleadings.
A 40 -year-old woman who is a co-worker of party filed FIR against BJP MLA Munirathna and his 4 accomplices named Vasantha, Channakeshwa, Kamal and the identity of fourth accussed is not revealed through the Bengaluru police for gang raping, urinating on the face and injecting deathly virus to woman by legislator.
As stated in the FIR registered at the RMC yard police station on Tuesday, the tragedy happened on June 11, 2023, at Munirathna’s office in Mathikere. The survivor claimed that Munirathna ordered his associates to file false cases against her, and she was jailed. After the release from jail, Vasantha and Kamal assured the victim that all the charges against her would be cleared by Munirathna. Vasantha and Kamal persuade her to go with them to Munirathna’s office on his command.
On reaching the office, Munirathna, Vasantha, and Channakeshawa stripped the victim, and she was menaced by the culprits to kill her son if she objected and Munirathna commanded two men to rape the woman, said the victim.
The terrifying and grisly incident didn’t stop here; the accused Munirathna urinated on the woman, amid the ongoing tragedy, a man with a white box got in and passed it to Munirathna, who then took out a syringe from the box to inject her. He gave a threat of devastating her family if she uttered a word about the incident that happened to her to anyone, said the victim in the FIR.
According to the victim, in January, she was hospitalised and discovered that she had an untreatable virus, which she claimed to have a connection to the 2023 incident. She also attempted suicide on Monday but endured, and she opted to file the case with the police.
On Tuesday, the police charged the accused under sections 376D (gang rape), 270 (act likely to spread infection hazardous to life), 323 (causing hurt), 354 (assault on a woman), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (outraging modesty) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
A special request has been made to the special investigation team, which is already probing the cases filed against Munirathna earlier, said an official.
