The former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai providing condolences to Neha Hiremath’s mother and father at Bidnal in Hubballi on Friday.
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The Hubballi Dharwad Police Commissionerate has offered a gunman to Neha’s father and municipal councillor Niranjan Hiremath, whereas additionally posting two police personnel at his residence.
The transfer comes a day after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the Hiremaths. During the Chief Minister’s go to, Mr. Hiremath conveyed to him that he confronted loss of life threat from unknown folks within the aftermath of his daughter’s homicide.
Mr. Hiremath had stated that on the pretext of condoling the loss of life, just a few suspicious folks entered his home and video-graphed his daughter’s bed room. The developments indicated threat to the family members and so an in depth investigation needs to be carried out, he had urged.
Consequently, on Friday, the Police Commissionerate offered a gunman to Mr. Hiremath and posted two police personnel for safety at his residence in Bidnal of Hubballi.
Bommai meets family
Meanwhile, the previous Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai met Neha’s family members on Friday and consoled them.
Terming the homicide extremely condemnable, he stated that it was an incident that made civilised society cling its head in disgrace. However, the Congress made an try to mislead and defend the responsible, he added.
Although Neha’s family suspected that there are others concerned within the case, the federal government has wiped its hand off the case by handing it over to the CID. If the federal government has no intention of defending anybody, then it ought to hand it over to the CBI for a radical investigation, he stated.
On Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s cost that the Opposition is politicising the difficulty, Mr. Bommai stated that if a woman scholar acquired killed on faculty campus in broad daylight, can the Chief Minister count on the Opposition to maintain quiet.
“If he were in Opposition, will he keep quiet? The whole State is shocked and seers, organisations and students are protesting. Are they politicising the issue?” he requested.
Mr. Bommai stated that the police getting the accused remanded to judicial custody quickly after arresting him as a substitute of interrogating him indicated that investigation had taken the fallacious route. Till date these towards whom Niranjan Hiremath has expressed suspicion haven’t been questioned. It is due to the lapses by the Congress that the homicide has taken political color. At least now it needs to be handed over to the CBI, he stated.