BENGALURU: City police said they interrogated Lokeswarappa aka Lokesh Talikatte, chief of Sandeepani International Residential School, on Wednesday in connection with a forgery case registered against him at Vidhana Soudha station on January 9.
Talikatte is also president of Registered Unaided Private Schools’ Management Association, Karnataka, which had raised the issue of rampant corruption in the education department. DCP (central) R Srinivas Gowda stated in an official release that Vidhana Soudha police summoned Talikatte for interrogation and questioned him.
Police registered the case against Talikatte based on a complaint by Mahanthaiah S Hosamath, under-secretary to the government (primary), school education and literacy. Hosamath alleged the management of Sandeepani International Residential School had furnished a forged NOC in the name of the state government to Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and got permission to run the school.
Talikatte told reporters he appeared in the police station to submit documents and a copy of his anticipatory bail. “I wrote to PM Narendra Modi about corruption in the department. In their bid to silence me, the government filed a case against me,” Talikatte said.