{"id":307465,"date":"2018-12-25T05:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T05:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307465"},"modified":"2018-12-25T05:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T05:42:33","slug":"karnataka-cm-hd-kumaraswamy-caught-on-tape-giving-kill-mercilessly-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-cm-hd-kumaraswamy-caught-on-tape-giving-kill-mercilessly-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy caught on tape giving \u2018kill mercilessly\u2019 orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307466 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has landed into a controversy after being caught on tape telling someone, over the phone to &#8220;mercilessly kill&#8221; to avenge the killing of a local leader of his Janata Dal Secular or JDS party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a video which has gone viral in social media, the Karnataka Chief Minister said, &#8220;He (H Prakash) was a good man. I don&#8217;t know who killed him in this way. Kill the miscreant mercilessly, there would be no problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JDS leader, H Prakash was killed by four assailants on Monday in Karnataka&#8217;s Maddur town in Mandya district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Kumaraswamy later denied that he had given such orders and called them an \u201cemotional\u201d reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumaraswamy said, &#8220;It was not my order, I was emotional at that moment. They (killers) are the reason for two murders and they were in jail. They came out on bail two days ago and killed another person (JDS leader Prakash), this is how they are misusing bail,\u201d a news agency quoted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has landed into a controversy after being caught on tape telling someone, over the phone to &#8220;mercilessly kill&#8221; to avenge the killing of a local leader of his Janata Dal Secular or JDS party. In a video which has gone viral in social media, the Karnataka Chief Minister said, &#8220;He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1552,1472,1430,10405,10406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307467,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307465\/revisions\/307467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}