CCD founder VG Siddharth's death is a result of harassment by IT officials: Congress
Bengaluru, July 31 (IBNS): Adding political colour to the death of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) founder VG Siddharth, the Congress said the harassment by Income Tax officials has resulted in the death of the entrepreneur.
In its official Twitter handle, the Karnataka Congress said, "#VGSiddhartha case is very unfortunate. Result of harassment by IT officials & decline of India’s entrepreneurial position turning virulent by the day, with Tax Terror & collapse of economy Companies which flourished under UPA have been shut down with many people being jobless"
#VGSiddhartha case is very unfortunate.
— Karnataka Congress (@INCKarnataka) July 31, 2019
Result of harassment by IT officials & decline of India’s entrepreneurial position turning virulent by the day, with Tax Terror & collapse of economy
Companies which flourished under UPA have been shut down with many people being jobless pic.twitter.com/rbwUymoM3B
Police recovered the body of businessman VG Siddhartha, who has been missing for the past two days, from the banks of the Netravathi River in Karnataka’s Mangaluru area on Wednesday early morning.
VG Siddhartha, the son-in-law of BJP leader SM Krishna, went missing on Monday.
A massive team of 100 firefighters, 100 policemen, 50 divers, 50 fishermen and 30 boats earlier conducted a search operation find the businessman.
According to The News Minute report, a fisherman named Ritesh on a trawler boat found the body when he cast his net into the waters. Since the police had informed fishermen to keep an eye out, Ritesh suspected that the body could have been Siddhartha's and immediately informed a local resident (Ashwath), who subsequently intimidated the local corporator Diwakar Pandeshwar and then the trio informed the local police.
Siddharth's body has been sent to hospital for post-motem.
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