Karnataka: Money laundering probe widens in multi-crore Valmiki corporation case

The role of Additional Director of state Social Welfare Department B Kallesh, who claimed that the officials of the federal agency were pressuring him to name Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, arrested former minister and Congress MLA B Nagendra and the finance department, has also come under an "enhanced scrutiny" after it was gathered that he was recently suspended by the state government on charges of corruption in his department.