Bengaluru (Karnataka): Congress leader and former Bengaluru Mayor Sampath Raj was on Friday sent to judicial custody in the Bengaluru violence case that left four people dead.
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) Police today produced Sampath Raj before the City Civil and Sessions Court today. Judge Katyayini, who had been hearing the case, ordered that the accused Sampath Raj be remanded to judicial custody till November 24.
Earlier on November 17, Sampath Raj, the Congress corporator from Devara Jeevanahalli municipal ward, was arrested in Bengaluru.
Raj was wanted in connection with the cases related to the violence that rocked parts of the city on August 11. Around 3,000 to 4,000 people went on a rampage, setting ablaze the houses of Pulakeshinagar Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and his sister over an alleged inflammatory social media post by his nephew.
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The mob also torched Devara Jeevanahalli and Kadugondanahalli police stations over suspicion that the nephew was present there. Three people were killed in police firing while another person died due to abdominal injuries suffered in the violence.
In the charge sheet, Raj has been charged with hatching a conspiracy with the violence to finish off the MLA politically in connivance with others.
