Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch, investigating the recent violence in Bengaluru over an ‘inflammatory’ social media post, has named former Mayor and sitting Congress Councillor R Sampath Raj as one of the accused in the case.
“He (Sampath Raj) has been named as one of the accused in the DJ halli and KG halli violence,” police said today.
Sampath Raj was amongst those who had information about the violence and did not share it with the police, the police added.
Police had twice questioned him for several hours along with Pulakeshinagar Congress corporator Abdul Rakeeb Zakir, but have not arrested them yet.
Sampath Raj’s personal assistant Arun Kumar was arrested earlier for allegedly remaining in touch with the ring leaders of the Bengaluru violence.