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Udupi : In relate to Kota double murder case, the victim family members have demanded the arrest of Raghavendra Kanchan, Zilla Panchayat member of BJP who had secured bail from the high court, and later his bail got cancelled recently.

Addressing at a press meet held at Udupi Press Club here on Monday, February 2, Hemanth brother of Bharath who killed along with his friend Yathish at around 10 pm on January 26 near Kota said that as soon as murder of Bharath and Yathish took place, then district superintendent of police Laxman Nimbargi had arrested all 16 accused who involved with the double murder case. However, few of the accused have procured bail from the court. One of the accused Raghavendra Kanchan, a  Zilla Panchayat member from BJP had secured bail from the high court. In fact, the mother of deceased Bharath Parvathi approached Supreme Court and got his bail cancelled.

Hemanth said that since the Supreme Court cancelled bail granted to accused Zilla Panchayat member Raghavendra Kanchan on January 20, the police department is not showing any interest in arresting Kanchan. It is suspected that Raghavendra Kanchan not arrested due to strong political pressure to the police. If the police fail to arrest Raghavendra Kanchan within three days, we will start a hunger protest infront of Superintendent of Police office at Bannanje, he said.

Hemanth said that Raghavendra Kanchan not arrested by police in spite of providing all the necessary documents to the SP, Kanchan not arrested so far due to solid pressure from local politician of Kundapur. Not only that these politician trying to transfer Kota Police Station Sub-inspector who carry on the investigation of this murder case, he said.

Hemanth said that my family lives with acute poor condition. With the help of some organizations and individuals, we are succeeded to apply in Supreme Court. To fight in the Supreme Court, Advocate Kotthadi Chandrashekar Shetty from Kundapur, Bengaluru based lawyers Chandrashekar Patil and his wife Rekha Chandrashekar Shetty argued in favour of us in the Supreme Court.

Hemanth said that victim Bharath’s mother Parvathi had appealed to the Supreme Court to cancel the bail of Raghavendra Kanchan which was granted bail by High Court of Karnataka. The family members have submitted all the court order documents to the SP. However, the police was not able to arrest the accused Raghavendra Kanchan. If police department not arrest within three days, then the family members holds a hunger strike upto death in front of the SP office, he said.

Murder victim Bharath’s mother Parvathi, Yathish’s brother Manoj, family members Annappa, Malini and others were present during the press meet.