On Sunday evening, members of the missing cooperative company were brought back to the village of Bagewadi in the Belagavi district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Police visited on Sunday evening in the Belagavi district in the Belagavi district in the Belagavi district and brought home six members of the primary agricultural cooperative company who were missing from the afternoon.
Members of the Allappa Hirekodi, Doodappa Shintre, Rafiq Madihalli, Vilas Anvekar, Shreelala Vastrady and Shreeshail Pattanhetty complained about Yamakanamarad Police officers on Sunday.
Some of the traces that some people may have taken them against their will to Vishwaraj Sugars, near Bagewadi, a sugar factory owned by former MP Ramesh Katti.
The factory was visited by a team of police officers headed by Circle Inspectors Javed Mushapure and Mahantsh Basapure.
They watched six members there. Six told the police that Mr. Katti called them to discuss the upcoming elections to banking banks in the district. They also said they asked them to stay after the meeting.
The police asked “missing” people if they wanted to go home and said, yes.
Some also expressed fear that they would not be able to go home, not if police help. They also feared that if they were to stay in the factory longer, they could be forcibly asked to vote for the Katti panel in the elections to the banks.
The police first accompanied six people at the police station and then accompanied them to their houses.
A case was registered. The investigation is turned on.
Published – September 2025 20:33
