Overview
- Brucepet police registered an FIR naming 11 people, including Gali Janardhan Reddy, his brother Somashekar Reddy, former minister B. Sriramulu and civic leader Motkar Srinivas, under multiple BNS sections based on a complaint from a Congress functionary.
- Ballari remains under heavy deployment with prohibitory orders after officers used a lathi charge and fired rounds in the air to control the January 1 violence near Janardhan Reddy’s residence.
- The victim, Rajashekar, a supporter of Congress MLA Nara Bharath Reddy, died from a gunshot wound; the postmortem is complete and police say CCTV and forensic reviews are in progress.
- Investigators stated the lethal round did not come from police weapons and preliminarily indicated a private revolver; social media videos showed a private gunman firing into the air.
- Both camps traded accusations, with Janardhan Reddy alleging an assassination plot by rivals including Satish Reddy, while Bharath Reddy blamed Janardhan Reddy and demanded arrests, and the BJP’s state chief sought a judicial inquiry.