Bangalore: Porn Clip Episode - Savadi Apologizes, Patil, Palemar, Plead Innocence
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)
Bangalore, Mar 9: On Thursday March 8, former ministers Laxman Savadi, C C Patil, and Krishna J Palemar were summoned before the house panel formed to inquire the incident in which they were caught on camera, watching porn video clips on a mobile when the assembly was session.
It is learnt that Savadi tendered unconditional apology for the incident. Minister, C C Patil, insisted that he was innocent. Palemar said his name was unnecessarily linked to the episode, although he had nothing to do with the incident. The members of the committee also tossed a number of questions at the trio, after the threesome presented their versions of the story.
Speaking to reporters after the panel sitting, its chief, Srishailappa Bidarur, told the media persons that the hearing of the three legislators had been completed, and the next meeting of the panel has been scheduled for March 15. He said that the panel will approach the assembly speaker with a request for extension of deadline, as the hearing needs to be held in a proper manner and in detail.
However, he confirmed that the panel does not plan to serve notices on any other legislators in connection with the case as reported in some media.
It is said that C C Patil, who was the first to be grilled, said that he was just sitting by the side of Savadi when some porn clippings appeared on the latter’s mobile phone. “The scenes I watched were not sexually explicit. I had asked Savadi to switch off the mobile phone, before going away,” he explained. He also said his eyesight is weak, and that without glasses he cannot view things that are close by. When told by members that he had viewed the mobile phone of Savadi, he said he was not wearing glasses and could not properly assimilate what was going on.
Krishna Palemar, who was the next in line, said the mobile in question does not belong to him, and that he had not lent his mobile phone to anyone. “My mobile phone remained switched off then. My name has been dragged into the episode without rhyme or reason. I am deeply pained at this development,” he said. When the members questioned him about scenes he was viewing on mobile with a Congress MLA, he said U T Khader was showing to him development works in his constituency and photos of his family members in his mobile.
Savadi, who initially insisted that he was not guilty, later got bewildered at several questions posed to him, and finally sought forgiveness for his fault, it is learnt. Savadi said he switched on the mobile accidentally, and also had claimed the mobile phone to be belonging to Palemar, because of the tension of the moment.
It is said that the members of the panel took the ministers to task for failing to protect the secrecy of the panel hearings and issuing public statements in their own defence. Savadi reportedly denied the newspaper reports attributed to him. The members also took to task Nehru Olekar for publicly saying that 15 more legislators had also watched the same video and that notices will be served on them too.
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