Overview
- Forensic testing matched the bullet that killed Congress worker Rajashekhar to a weapon owned by Gurukreet Singh, a personal security guard of Ballari MLA Nara Bharat Reddy, and Singh has been arrested and remanded.
- Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar said private firearms have been confiscated in Ballari and that the government will frame stricter gun ownership rules.
- Police accounts say doctors conducted a second postmortem to extract the bullet for evidence, a point that D. K. Shivakumar publicly disputed when addressing claims of irregularities.
- BJP and JD(S) leaders demanded a CBI inquiry, alleging a state-level cover-up and noting that initial FIRs named BJP figures after a complaint from an associate of Congress MLA Bharat Reddy.
- Minister Zameer Ahamed Khan and MLA Bharat Reddy delivered a bag containing Rs 25 lakh to the victim’s family as compensation, prompting questions from H. D. Kumaraswamy about the source of the cash.