India | Updated Oct 28, 2006 at 10:49pm IST

Police yet to question Nikhil Gowda

Shwetal Kamalapurkar, CNN-IBN

Bangalore: The reception at the Empire Hotel in Bangalore still bears telltale signs of the scuffle on October 26 involving Chief Minister Kumaraswamy's son, Nikhil Gowda.

However, two days after the brawl, authorities at the hotel are still refusing to identify the miscreants and police say investigations will take time.

Says General Manager Empire hotel Junez, "I have not identified anyone, but I surely will. We have evidence against him."

And meanwhile, the Opposition is not letting the opportunity pass by and is making most of the chance to point fingers at the Chief Minister, H D Kumaraswamy.

Says Youth Congress Spokesperson Omar Abdullah Sheikh, "We want the police to arrest the miscreants - be it the Chief Minister's son or anyone else. The law should be the same for everyone."

The Gowda family however, did not keep quiet for too long either. Response came from Nikhil's grandfather and former Karnataka chief minister, H D Deve Gowda.

"The authorities have already initiated the appropriate action. There will be no question of over-ruling the law of the land," he said.

So, what is it that the law is doing about the whole issue?

Says Additional Commissioner of Police Bipin Gopalakrishnan, "There are certain fundamental questions that need to be answered and that can only be done if these people come out in the open. They are all afraid to come out now because of the attention they are getting, so right now we are just allowing things to cool down right now."

Bangalore was witness to another late night brawl earlier this month, involving Fashion Guru Prasad Bidappa's son, Adam Bidappa.

Adam was arrested on October 20 for abusing a police man.

It seems like children of the rich and powerful in Bangalore are treading dangerously on the wrong side of law.

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" class="Btext11"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="Wtext11 pLeft5" style="background-color:#CB0101"><div align="center"><strong> FAMILY TROUBLE </strong></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#F7F7F7; padding:10px;" ><p><strong>H D Kumaraswamy</strong><br /> Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy was in September accused of involvement in a deal in which 590 acres of government-owned forest near Bangalore was grabbed by land sharks. A probe is on. Earlier, a rebel BJP leader released a videotape allegedly showing the state's forest minister demanding bribes from Bellary mine owners in north Karnataka. Kumaraswamy says the videotape was fabricated to malign his coalition government.</p> <br> <p> <strong>H D Revanna</strong><br>The Chief Minister's elder brother is the state's Public Works minister and was against forming a coalition government with the BJP. He later relented and joined the government. NICE, a company that is building the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor, has alleged that Revanna and Kumaraswamy have tried to defame it and stall the multi-crore project.</p> <br> <p> <strong>H D Deve Gowda</strong><br>In 2006 when Kumaraswamy took the support of 40 rebel JD(S) MLAs and the BJP to topple the Dharam Singh Government, the former prime minister announced he would never support his son. Gowda even suspended Kumaraswamy and the rebel MLAs but there are allegations that all this was an eyewash and he worked behind the scenes to topple the government.</p> </td> </tr> </table>

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