When he was 19, for instance, him and his friends reportedly trashed the Empire Hotel on Bengaluru’s Church Street and even attacked the staff. “I am the CM’s son and I’ll get this hotel blown up and closed,” a staffer had quoted Nikhil as saying.
While the Radisson Blu in Mysuru has accepted that he stayed there but denied that he created any sort of scene, Nikhil’s public bad behaviour has been reported in the past.
The interest of the paper is merely to bring incidents to the notice of the public.”Īccording to The News Minute, while other local publications also published similar stories after the party’s loss, JD(S) leaders have only filed a case against Vishwavani.Īlso read: Has Congress Been Delivered a Death Blow in Karnataka? The Vishwavani paper has never relied on the publication of fake or provocative news to increase its popularity. My request to the media is to desist from playing with the emotions of people with such false news,” he said.īhat had replied, “The news report headlined ‘Nikhil Kumar’s night time rage’ was obtained by the newspaper’s reporter from trusted sources at the hotel. The pain caused to me as a father through this character assassination of Nikhil has been conveyed to the editor. According to the report, Nikhil blamed his grandfather for not convincing Congress leaders to support his candidature.īefore the police complaint was filed, chief minister Kumaraswamy had called the report false and malicious. “A report published in a Kannada newspaper today about Nikhil Kumaraswamy is false and malicious. In another story, the newspaper quoted an anonymous source as saying that Nikhil had vented his anger at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mysuru on May 23. “Despite no such incident occurring, the newspaper has reported it on an imaginary basis in order to derail the political career of Nikhil Kumaraswamy,’’ Indian Express quotes the FIR as saying. The article, published on May 25, said that Nikhil had got drunk and abused Deve Gowda, blaming him for the party’s loss in the Mandya constituency – where Nikhil was contesting from. The FIR includes sections on defamation, criminal intimidation, intent to provoke breach of peace, breach of trust, cheating and forgery. Kumaraswamy’s son (and Deve Gowda’s grandson) Nikhil.
The complaint says the newspaper published false information about Karnataka chief minister H.D. Deve Gowda’s family after his party’s poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka.Īccording to the Indian Express, the FIR was filed based on the complaint of a JD(S) worker, Pradeep Gowda. The daily had published an article on trouble within former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief H.D. New Delhi: The Karnataka police has registered an FIR against Kannada newspaper Vishwavani and its owner-editor Vishweshwar Bhat.