Hundreds including BS Yediyurappa attend CCD founder's funeral
Bengaluru, July 31 (IBNS): The funeral of Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, who was found dead on Wednesday morning, 36 hours after he went missing from a bridge near Mangaluru in Karnataka, took place in Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka on Wednesday evening.
The funeral, which took place at one of his coffee estates in his village, was attended by hundreds of people, including Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar and other senior politicians.
In his condolences after the funeral, BS Yediyurappa tweeted: "In the moment of grief I paid my tribute to one of the pioneers in the coffee retail industry, the founder of Cafe Coffee Day & Former CM Sri S M Krishna's son in law, Sri. VG Siddartha. My heart goes out to his family. He will always be remembered."
In the moment of grief i paid my tribute to one of the pioneers in the coffee retail industry, the founder of Cafe Coffee Day & Former CM Sri S M Krishna’s son in law, Sri. VG Siddartha. My heart goes out to his family. He will always be remembered. pic.twitter.com/e91EHLAIIs
— B.S. Yediyurappa (@BSYBJP) July 31, 2019
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, had gone missing on Monday.
A team of 100 firefighters, 100 policemen, 50 divers, 50 fishermen and 30 boats earlier conducted a search operation to 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.
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