Bengaluru: Journalist Hemanth Kumar, who is accused of publishing a fake letter on Lingayat separate religion row, in the name of State Home Minister M B Patil, was remanded to judicial custody by the Special Court for People’s Representatives, here on Tuesday, April 30.
He was in the police custody from the past three days and as that period came to an end, he was produced before the special court.
Justice Ramachandra D Huddar has ordered the judicial custody till May 9 so that Hemanth’s defence lawyer files a counter and plea for bail.
Meanwhile, the court has decided to take up the bail plea hearing on May 2.
Earlier, in the name of the state home minister a letter was published in one of the Kannada dailies stating that ostensibly addressed to the former president of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Sonia Gandhi on the Lingayat separate religion row.
The same letter was gone viral on all the social media platforms. Meanwhile, contesting the letter as fraudulent, Patil had filed a complaint in the Adarsh Nagar Police Station of Vijayapura.
The CID police had investigated the matter during which the Post Card webportal Editor Mahesh Vikram Hegde was also taken into custody and interrogated. Based on his statements, journalist Hemanth Kumar was taken into police custody by the CID police on April 27.
