Sadanand Gowda’s son booked for starlet’s rape
30 Aug 2014 5:21 AM IST
In a major embarrassment to railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda, a Kannada starlet on Thursday insisted she was his son’s wife. She also said Gowda’s family was aware of it and hence must accept her as their daughter-in-law. This came a day after she filed a complaint of rape and cheating against Gowda’s son.
Gowda, on the other hand, cried foul asserting that his son had been ‘falsely implicated’ but said the law should take its own course on the complaint which was filed here on a day when his son’s engagement ceremony with another woman took place at Kushalnagar in Kodagu district. As the small time model-turned-actress’ complaint against Karthik Gowda became a full blown scandal and kicked up a storm in Karnataka with her appearance on TV channels giving more details of her side of the story, the minister said, ‘...it’s a false complaint...’ The Congress government in the state also said the law would take its own course. A case was booked on Wednesday night against Karthik under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of the complaint filed by the woman.
The woman claimed that Karthik and she had got married at Gowda’s residence in Mangalore in June in the presence of Karthik’s driver. ‘I have married him. Please accept me as your daughter-in-law,’ she told Gowda’s family, maintaining that they were aware of the marriage but were not willing to accept her. ‘My marriage has happened. I can’t take anybody else as my husband,’ the woman said while rejecting suggestions that she was trying to blackmail the Gowda family.
Gowda, on the other hand, cried foul asserting that his son had been ‘falsely implicated’ but said the law should take its own course on the complaint which was filed here on a day when his son’s engagement ceremony with another woman took place at Kushalnagar in Kodagu district. As the small time model-turned-actress’ complaint against Karthik Gowda became a full blown scandal and kicked up a storm in Karnataka with her appearance on TV channels giving more details of her side of the story, the minister said, ‘...it’s a false complaint...’ The Congress government in the state also said the law would take its own course. A case was booked on Wednesday night against Karthik under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of the complaint filed by the woman.
The woman claimed that Karthik and she had got married at Gowda’s residence in Mangalore in June in the presence of Karthik’s driver. ‘I have married him. Please accept me as your daughter-in-law,’ she told Gowda’s family, maintaining that they were aware of the marriage but were not willing to accept her. ‘My marriage has happened. I can’t take anybody else as my husband,’ the woman said while rejecting suggestions that she was trying to blackmail the Gowda family.
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