Former Karnataka minister KJ George finds himself in the news again for the wrong reasons.He has been accused for yet another suicide after a 60 year old farmer blamed him and Karnataka DGP Om Prakash's son Karthik for his death. The farmer - who had a property dispute with his brother - said Karthik was doing a quarring business on their land. He has accused Karthik of preventing him from filing a complaint due to his influence. The farmer's son has filed a complaint with Magdi police in Ramanagara.
Tracing back the record of charges, this is not the first time that an accusation has been hurled at the former minister as part-time businessman and part-time politican KJ George seems to have a predilection for controversies.
He entered politics as a youth Congress leader and became minister in the state in 1989. As Urban Development minister in the 1990s, he was accused of large scale land-grabbing.He called the allegations a smear campaign.
George's controversial real estate deals were cited as a reason when IAS officer Ravi committed suicide. He could breathe easy only when the CBI found nothing against him. But, the death of Dy SP Ganapathy is different. Since he openly blamed George hours before his death, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is finding it difficult to defend him.
And the list of charges goes on.
In the recent past, his name has also come up in the suicide of a top official. MK Ganapathy, a deputy superintendent with the state police committed suicide in Kodagu in July, hours after he held a press conference accusing George, his son Rana and two top police officials of harassing him.
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