<p>Bengaluru: Film producer Umapathi Srinivas Gowda has filed a complaint of extortion and criminal intimidation against RTI activist Vijay Dennis. However, Dennis denied the allegations. </p>.<p>The complaint was filed after the media platforms were flooded with purported audio of a call record between Gowda and Dennis. In the audio, Gowda was heard answering Dennis’ plea to reverse the transfer order of his cousin, which was mediated by Gowda.</p>.<p>“I have already given the letter to the Home Minister. It won’t look good if I go with a change now,” Gowda was heard saying in the purported call record audio. “It was a commitment from his (Dennis’ cousin) end and I have facilitated it. Now, it cannot be reversed. I keep my words; I am a man of words.”</p>.<p>Dennis spoke to <em><strong>DH</strong></em> and said, “Gowda had facilitated the transfer of a friend for Rs 20 lakh. He started demanding money from my friend who was in the traffic department. As he doesn’t get such a sum even in his annual salary, he couldn’t pay. But Gowda was persistent in demanding the sum.”</p>.<p>Gowda denied all the claims and said the audio was fake. He claimed that Dennis called him and started threatening him for money.</p>.<p>Gowda told <em><strong>DH</strong></em> that he knew Dennis for the last six years or so and said, “A few weeks ago Dennis called me and asked for Rs 10 lakh. I offered to give him one lakh as I didn’t have such a huge sum. But he disconnected the call abruptly.”</p>.<p>Gowda claimed that Dennis called him again and threatened him. “Dennis said he was going to send an audio call recording to the media and show what he can do. I asked him to do whatever he can.”</p>.<p>When the fake call recording started to make rounds in the media, a complaint was filed, claimed Gowda.</p>.<p>C K Baba, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) told <em><strong>DH</strong></em> that based on Gowda’s complaint, an FIR has been registered in HSR Layout police station under Sections 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. “We have issued a notice to Dennis to appear in the police station for questioning,” Baba said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: Film producer Umapathi Srinivas Gowda has filed a complaint of extortion and criminal intimidation against RTI activist Vijay Dennis. However, Dennis denied the allegations. </p>.<p>The complaint was filed after the media platforms were flooded with purported audio of a call record between Gowda and Dennis. In the audio, Gowda was heard answering Dennis’ plea to reverse the transfer order of his cousin, which was mediated by Gowda.</p>.<p>“I have already given the letter to the Home Minister. It won’t look good if I go with a change now,” Gowda was heard saying in the purported call record audio. “It was a commitment from his (Dennis’ cousin) end and I have facilitated it. Now, it cannot be reversed. I keep my words; I am a man of words.”</p>.<p>Dennis spoke to <em><strong>DH</strong></em> and said, “Gowda had facilitated the transfer of a friend for Rs 20 lakh. He started demanding money from my friend who was in the traffic department. As he doesn’t get such a sum even in his annual salary, he couldn’t pay. But Gowda was persistent in demanding the sum.”</p>.<p>Gowda denied all the claims and said the audio was fake. He claimed that Dennis called him and started threatening him for money.</p>.<p>Gowda told <em><strong>DH</strong></em> that he knew Dennis for the last six years or so and said, “A few weeks ago Dennis called me and asked for Rs 10 lakh. I offered to give him one lakh as I didn’t have such a huge sum. But he disconnected the call abruptly.”</p>.<p>Gowda claimed that Dennis called him again and threatened him. “Dennis said he was going to send an audio call recording to the media and show what he can do. I asked him to do whatever he can.”</p>.<p>When the fake call recording started to make rounds in the media, a complaint was filed, claimed Gowda.</p>.<p>C K Baba, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) told <em><strong>DH</strong></em> that based on Gowda’s complaint, an FIR has been registered in HSR Layout police station under Sections 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. “We have issued a notice to Dennis to appear in the police station for questioning,” Baba said.</p>