Thesleaze CD case took another turn on Saturday with the family members of thewoman who has been accusing former Karnataka minister, Ramesh Jarkiholi ofsexual exploitation, squarely blamed Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committeepresident, D.K. Shivakumar for playing a major role in releasing the CD.
Asthe woman released her fifth video clip and blamed Jarkiholi for harassing herfamily, the family members suddenly surfaced and appeared before the SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) that is probing into the sleaze CD case.
Aftergiving their statement to the SIT, the father and brother of the woman toldreporters that they spoke with the SIT officials and gave their statement tothem.
Wehave an audio clip of our sister and the same has been given to SIT officials.During the conversation, my sister had told us that she is at D.K. Shivakumar'shouse and he is sending her out from the state, for her safety. Making suchvideos, keeping a woman to take their political revenge is not the right thing,the brother said.
Fallingshort of using kidnap word, he alleged that Shivkumar was playing his own gamesby holding his sister in his control.
Iappeal to Shivakumar not to play with our lives, he said.
Whileher father said that he being an ex-serviceman, he knows how to take care ofhis daughter as all his life he spent to protect this country and he knewbetter than anyone how to protect his daughter.
Onthe purported audio clip that was released on Friday evening, her brother saidthat as his sister's mobile phone was switched off on March 2, the sleaze CDreleased was shown all over news channels.
"Afterseeing these videos, we called on her friend's phone and spoke with her. Shetold us that the videos are morphed and edited and D.K. Shivakumar is sendingher to Goa safely," he said.
Interveningat this juncture, her father said that using a Schedule Tribe (ST) woman fortheir political gain is a bad idea and it's dirty politics.
"Wedon't want to make any more allegations, we just want our daughter back home.We need the support of policemen and media persons to bring her back home. Shehad come home last on February 5, but after March 2, she spoke to us over thephone. The suspected kingpin media statement about the incident is false,"he said.
Herbrother added that if Shivakumar wants to settle any scores with anyone, lethim do it on his own, but not use his sister as his pawn in this dirty game ofpolitics.
"Ionly one thing ask Shivkumar, he should allow my sister to go free from hisclutches," he said.
TheSIT had subjected parents to questioning in the Interrogation Cell in Adugodibased on their complaint of kidnap and the woman's video clip. The SITquestioned them for over six hours from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Seniorofficials including Soumendu Mukherjee, additional commissioner of police(West) (head of SIT), Sandeep Patil, joint commissioner of police (Crime), andothers visited the Interrogation Cell.