Congress leader Girish Gadigeppagoudar has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to initiate CID inquiry into a case of alleged police atrocities on farmers in Hubballi or hand over the case to Lokayukta for inquiry.
Mr. Gadigeppagoudar who met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at Hubballi Airport on Saturday, submitted a memorandum in this regard to him after briefing him about the grievances of the farmers and alleged that few police officials had threatened farmers and forcefully taken money from them.
In the memorandum, he has said that the police officials had called Mallikarjun Siddappa Hiremani and other farmers of Halyal village in Hubballi taluk to the police station, threatened them and forcefully taken money to the tune of few crores from them in connection with sale of their agricultural lands.
He has said that mediating on behalf of farmer Monappa Nandihalli, two real estate dealers Dilip Sutar and Praveen Sutar had entered into a land deal with noted doctor from Hubballi but after taking money from the doctor, they had duped the Nandihalli family. They had even threatened the farmers at gun point when they went to get their money. What was even worse was that when the farmers went to police station to seek justice, they were harassed and threatened by three police inspectors under the directions of the Police Commissioner, he alleged in the memorandum.
