Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Aug 4: In a statement issued to the press, Atul Rao, against whom a private complaint has been filed by MLA Raghupati Bhat, whose wife Padmapriya allegedly disappeared with the help of Atul and then was found hanging from the ceiling of a flat in New Delhi, claimed that he had done nothing wrong as alleged in the private complaint.
" I had given statements on June 14, 2008, when I had gone to New Delhi in the company of the district crime intelligence bureau policemen and again on June 18 the same year, in the office of the inspector general of police Mangalore and to the Manipal policemen. When I was in the hospital, the Corps of Detectives personnel obtained my statements. I did not sign this statement. On June 29, the COD policemen filed charge sheet. If I had done anything as alleged in the present complaint, why did the COD policemen failed to make any mention of this during the hearing in the last 14 months?, he has questioned.