The Janata Dal (Secular) on Friday described the complainant against Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in the alleged extortion case as a “fraudster” and demanded a probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) against him.
JD(S) leaders, led by former MLC H.M. Ramesh Gowda, also staged a protest outside the Police Commissioner’s office and Amruthahalli police station in Bengaluru where a first information report has been registered against Mr. Kumaraswamy and Mr. Gowda for allegedly demanding ₹50 crore from a Bengaluru-based realtor and threatening him with dire consequences if he failed to pay.
Addressing presspersons at the party office in Bengaluru, the former MLC accused the complainant, Vijay Tata, of
