{"id":1048091,"date":"2026-11-09T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048091"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:31:53","slug":"hdk-demands-probe-into-whatsapp-chat-of-hassan-dc-demanding-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/hdk-demands-probe-into-whatsapp-chat-of-hassan-dc-demanding-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"HDK demands probe into WhatsApp chat of Hassan DC demanding bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HASSAN: Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday urged Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and DG&#038;IGP MA Saleem to investigate the alleged WhatsApp chat between Shashikiran, the personnel assistant of Hassan Deputy Commissioner (DC) KS Latha Kumari, and a stone crusher unit manager, demanding a huge bribe to clear files. <\/p>\n<p>Kumaraswamy said the WhatsApp chat involves giving Rs 75 lakh to Hassan district minister KM Shivalingegowda to continue her as Hassan DC. He said a state government official, his face covered with a towel, handed over a copy of the chat to him and left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HASSAN: Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday urged Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and DG&#038;IGP MA Saleem to investigate the alleged WhatsApp chat between Shashikiran, the personnel assistant of Hassan Deputy Commissioner (DC) KS Latha Kumari, and a stone crusher unit manager, demanding a huge bribe to clear files. Kumaraswamy said the WhatsApp chat involves giving Rs 75 lakh to Hassan district minister KM Shivalingegowda to continue her as Hassan DC. He said a state government official, his face covered with a towel, handed over a copy of the chat to him and left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048094,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048091\/revisions\/1048094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}