CID questions Santosh Hegde

BENGALURU: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials who are investigating the case filed by senior IPS officer Hemant Nimbalkar against the Additional Director of the CBI Rupak Kumar Datta and former Karnataka Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde, reportedly went to question Mr Hegde recently, without knowing the fact that his name was cancelled by the apex court in the case.

Nimbalkar, who is currently posted as DIG in the Fire and Emergency Services Department, had filed a case against the duo in 2012, after the Lokayukta police gave him clean chit in a disproportionate assets case.

Sources in the CID said that the officials who were investigating the case wanted to question Hegde to gather some information from him about the case.

“A team went to him and told him that they wanted to question him in connection with the case. Hegde made it clear that the Supreme Court had cancelled his name in the case.

Further, he also gave us the case number and team had to return. Meanwhile, Hegde also made it clear that whatever input he had got from the police wing of the Lokayukta, he gave it to media at a press conference held on the day when Nimbalkar’s house and office were raided,” the source said.

When DC contacted Hegde, he said, “The CID officials had come to question me in connection with the case recently. They were not aware of the fact that the Supreme Court had cancelled my name in the case recently.

I informed them about it and the officials got the case number from me and left.” Hegde, however, said that there was nothing wrong in CID questioning him as part of the investigation.