Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Mar 5: In connection with a cheque bounce case, the 13th additional chief metropolitan magistrate's court here has issued non-bailable arrest warrant against Ballari MP, Sriramulu.
Hearing of the cheque bounce case had been scheduled for Friday March 4. Presiding officer of the court, C J Vishalakshi, observing that Sriramulu had absented from hearing without advance notice, conducted the hearing and ordered the police to present the accused personally in the court on March 22.
A person named L Somashekhar from Mysuru had filed this case. He had alleged that Sriramulu had collected Rs 2.96 crore from him, duly promising to field him as a BJP candidate from either Ballari or Raichur constituency in the Lok Sabha election held in 2014.
He saccused Sriramulu of neither paying back his money nor getting him party ticket. "When I insisted on repayment of money he issued cheques. But on presentation, these cheques were returned for want of funds," Somashekhar has alleged, when approaching the court on June 19 last year with his complaint.