'Sex CD was a bait to get Anupama reappointed'

Former minister H Y Meti has claimed that DAR constable Subhash Mugalakhod had put forth the demand that former police officer Anupama Shenoy be taken back into service, if the sex CD should not be made public.

In an interview to DH, he has said the sex CD against him was used as a tool in a bid to get Shenoy back in service.

RTI activist Rajashekhara Mulali, it is said, during the phone conversation asked Mugalakhod to demand money and put forth the condition that “a madam” (possibly Anupama) should be taken back in service, as a quid pro quo for not releasing the CD.

Anupama, who was the DySP of Kudligi Sub-division in Ballari district had tendered her resignation on June 4, 2016. Later the government on June 9 accepted the resignation.

Plaint against 4
The victim in the Meti sex scandal filed cases against four people on Saturday night at the Navanagar police station in Bagalkot, saying that they tried to strangle her when she tried to escape from an oil mill where they had locked her up.

The woman has named constable Mugalakhod, Ashok Lagaloti, president of the Jyothi Bank, contractor Siddalinga Abalakatti and Maruti Mirajkar, who has a travel and courier business, in the complaint.

It says that since the minister did not agree to appoint Mugalakhod as his gunman, despite the demand made by her, the four of them locked her up and forced her to give a statement against Meti.

Cases of attempt to murder and outraging the modesty of a woman have been registered against the four.