00:00And we're getting some breaking news. Bengaluru Sting Video Probe leads police to Union Minister
00:05Kumaraswamy's office in Delhi accused Names Aid. So Bengaluru police have arrested one more accused
00:12in the Sting Video case. So that's the latest that's coming in. The Bengaluru City Police have
00:17arrested Ritesh Pandey from Delhi in connection with the Cybercrime Police Station case relating
00:22to the alleged Sting operation and circulation of video. And cops say that during interrogation,
00:28Ritesh Pandey allegedly disclosed that he had purchased a mobile phone from a shop in Karol Bagh
00:33in Delhi along with Vinod Sharma on the instructions of Prajwal Prasad who works with the social media
00:39team of H.D. Kumaraswamy's office. Now according to Ritesh Pandey's statement, the duo subsequently
00:46went to H.D. Kumaraswamy's residence on Kushak Road in New Delhi and handed over the mobile phone
00:51to Prajwal Prasad.
00:53In this case, the accused, one Ritesh Pandey who has been arrested in New Delhi, the
01:02teams have found that he along with one Mr. Vinod Sharma had gone to a market in Karol Bagh,
01:10to a shop in Karol Bagh, where they have purchased a mobile set. And this particular set was handed
01:16over back to – was handed over to one Prajwal Prasad in the official residence of H.D.
01:25Kumaraswamy, union minister. And they were working for the social media – as social media content
01:32creators, one or two of them, in this particular office. So we are verifying all these facts.
01:39Once these – they are in our custody and we are able to interrogate them, we will come
01:45to know further details.
01:47And my colleague Sakeh Raj is now joining us with more details on this. Sakeh, give us more
01:51details on this entire case listing operation case and the latest details which have emerged
01:58highlighting the JDS angle now.
02:02If you notice that this particular video of a few people who were talking that Sidra
02:09Maya was very close to them and this particular video was viral on social media. And there
02:14was an FIR which was been registered by Sidra Maya's team where they have requested the police
02:21to go ahead and inquire on that. And subsequently, the police have found out that this particular
02:26video was uploaded on social media by close aides of union minister, Shri Kumar Swamy. And
02:36the Bengaluru police commissioner, Srimanth Kumar Singh, who had addressed the press conference,
02:41went on to say that they have arrested Ritesh Pandey, who have allegedly brought a phone from
02:47Karol Bagh. And it was handed over to someone at Kumar Swamy's residence. And the police are
02:53investigating and trying to find out the network behind this particular investigation. As of now,
03:00it is quite clear that they have allegedly found out that the entire Stingo operation,
03:05which was uploaded on social media, was allegedly operated from union minister's residence in Delhi.
03:13All right, thank you for those details. So that's the latest that's coming in as far as the Sting video
03:19operation against the former chief minister of Karnataka. Sidra Maya is concerned now. We have been
03:24hearing how the Congress party had been claiming that there's a JDS link and it is the JDS behind this
03:29entire operation. And now there's a link, JDS link, that has in fact emerged with this latest arrest of
03:34Ritesh Pandey, who has revealed his other aides who are directly linked to H.T. Kumar Swamy's office.
