BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj remanded in judicial custody till Feb 26 in Bengaluru realtor murder case

(*26*)The CID had sought police custody of the MLA, saying custodial interrogation was important because the Karnataka HC had ordered the identical in a ruling on February 10. CID Particular Prosecutor Ashok Naik instructed the courtroom on February 13 that the BJP MLA had beforehand lied to the Bengaluru police in statements about his involvement with the murder.

(*26*)“It was revealed from the proof obtained in the course of the investigation that the reality was hid in statements (by the MLA). The accused needs to be interrogated totally and the additional assertion needs to be recorded,” the CID instructed the courtroom.

(*26*)The courtroom was knowledgeable that the murder sufferer Bikla Shiva had filed complaints with the police about 4 to 5 months earlier than the murder about threats he had acquired from the MLA and his associates over actual property disputes in east Bengaluru.

(*26*)“In the course of the investigation, it was learnt that the accused (MLA) was supporting accused A-1 (Jagadish P alias Jaga) and A-20 (Ajeeth Kumar) in their actual property enterprise. An investigation needs to be carried out after acquiring info from the accused,” the courtroom was knowledgeable.

(*26*)Realtor Bikla Shiva was hacked to demise exterior his dwelling in east Bengaluru on the night of July 15, 2025, by a gang of assailants over an actual property dispute with members of a prison gang allegedly related to BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj and concerned in the true property enterprise in east Bengaluru.

(*26*)Byrathi Basavraj was named in the murder FIR filed by the Bengaluru police on the idea of a criticism by the mom of the murder sufferer, whereby she alleged that her son had been receiving threats from the MLA and his associates in a dispute over a 12 gunta property at Kithaganur in east Bengaluru.

(*26*)The MLA has, in the meantime, moved a particular periods courtroom for bail in the case.

(*26*)MLA’s businessman-advocate affiliate remanded as effectively

(*26*)The particular courtroom Friday remanded businessman-advocate A G Ajeeth Kumar, 48, thought of to be a detailed affiliate of the MLA, in judicial custody till February 26. Ajeeth Kumar, who is called as A20 in the case, is accused of funding, offering logistical and motivational assist for the murder of Bikla Shiva on the behest of the MLA.

(*26*)Ajeeth Kumar was arrested on February 12 after a particular courtroom canceled his interim bail in the wake of the Supreme Courtroom rejecting an anticipatory bail plea filed by Byrathi Basavaraj.

(*26*)The particular Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, which granted the CID six days of custody of Ajeeth Kumar on February 12, rejected a plea made by the CID on Friday for extra custody of 5 days.

(*26*)The CID had sought further custody of the businessman advocate “for assortment of the CCTV footage of the locations of conspiracy, which had been acknowledged to have been collected and secured by the accused” and for confronting him with mirror photos of the cell knowledge extracts of the accused which had been seized in the course of the investigation.

(*26*)The courtroom rejected the plea for extra custody however granted liberty to the CID to strategy the courtroom once more “after acquiring the report as to reflect photos of cell knowledge extraction.”

(*26*)The CID filed a chargesheet in opposition to 18 of the 20 accused individuals in the murder case in December excluding MLA Byrathi Basavaraj and Ajeeth Kumar, who’re additionally accused in the murder case.

(*26*)The police have knowledgeable the courts that the murder had its origins in a dispute relationship again to February 2025, when a claimant to a property recognized as Ravi contacted accused No. 2 Kiran Ok, stating that the murder sufferer Bikla Shiva had constructed a compound wall for 4 30 x 40 websites on 12 guntas of land belonging to the claimant in Kithaganur in east Bengaluru.