On January 1, a 47-year-old man was allegedly discovered shot to death in his automobile on the outskirts of Bengaluru. According to authorities, he claimed that BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali and five other people had defrauded him in a supposedly suicide note.
While returning from the Woodrose resort near Kaggalipura, where he had gone with his wife’s family, about 5.30 pm, Pradeep S, a resident of Ambalipura in Whitefield, allegedly shot himself dead with a legal gun. According to the Kaggalipura police, his wife Namitha V was in a relative’s car.
According to the police, Pradeep killed himself in his automobile in Nettigere, 32 kilometres from Bengaluru. He also left behind an eight-page suicide note that included a few names and contact information.
Police sources claim that between 2010 and 2013, Pradeep managed Limbavali’s social media accounts. Limbavali is a BJP MLA. According to the memo, Pradeep claimed that in 2018, he spent Rs 1.5 crore in Opus Club, which offered him a monthly return of Rs 1.5 lakh and a profit of Rs 3 lakh. He supposedly received nothing, though. Limbavali is said to have intervened, resulting in an arrangement with the corporation to reimburse the investors. But according to Pradeep, the BJP leader backed five different investors but not him.
The five people are Gopi K, Somaiah, G Ramesh Reddy, Jayaram Reddy, and Raghava Bhat. They are also listed in the note.
According to the police, their investigation showed that Pradeep had left three suicide notes, all with the same message, including one at his home, one on the wiper blade of a family member’s car, and one in his own vehicle.
The probe also showed that Pradeep and Namitha had made up after she reported him for harassment in May of last year.