A member of the City Municipal Council (CMC) in Chamarajanagar R P Nanjundaswamy was sentenced to one year in prison by the local court for threatening the Commissioner of the civic body with dire circumstances and preventing him from discharging his official duties.
The Principal Civil Judge and JMFC court sentenced Nanjundaswamy, who represents Ward No. 15 of the Chamarajanagar CMC, on March 25, 2022, for the offence reported more than eleven years ago.
At a function organised by the CMC to lay the foundation stone for a solid waste management unit on Government land at Yadabetta in Chamarajanagar rural police station limits on November 10, 2010 in the presence of CMC members, MLAs and engineers, Nanjundaswamy, who was then a member of CMC ward No. 27, kicked up a row with the then CMC Commissioner S Prakash on the pretext of seeking details of expenditure on past works and disrupted a Government function.
