KARNATAKA MINISTER Yathindra Siddaramaiah on Friday alleged that some people from his own party, Congress, were behind a purported “sting operation”, aimed at tarnishing the image of his father and former chief minister Siddaramaiah.

Both Siddaramaiah and Yathindra spoke publicly for the first time about the “fake sting video” from 2023 and indicated that some Congress insiders were involved in the alleged sting by Power TV Managing Director Rakesh Shetty.

Shetty, meanwhile, has been granted interim bail by a local court in Bengaluru in the wake of the city police summoning him for interrogation.

The Power TV MD sought anticipatory bail on Thursday fearing his arrest in the wake of the Bengaluru cybercrime police serving a notice for his appearance before police despite previous cooperation with investigations of the alleged sting video case filed on a complaint by Siddaramaiah on October 6.

The counsel for Shetty argued that the Power TV MD was “not the owner, creator or administrator of the YouTube…