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A seat of Justice M Nagaprasanna heard the substance aft HD Kumaraswamy moved the High Court seeking a cancellation of the First Information Report. (@hd_kumaraswamy/X)
The Karnataka High Court has recorded an undertaking by the authorities that it volition not instrumentality coercive enactment against erstwhile main curate HD Kumaraswamy, his lad Nikhil, and JD(S) person Suresh Babu successful transportation with the FIR registered against them based connected a ailment lodged by elder IPS serviceman M Chandrasekar.
On Wednesday, a seat of Justice M Nagaprasanna heard the substance aft Kumaraswamy moved the High Court seeking a cancellation of the First Information Report. The FIR was registered by the Sanjay Nagar constabulary connected Monday pursuing a tribunal absorption nether Section 224 (threatening a nationalist servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Chandrasekhar filed his ailment aboriginal successful October.
Chandrasekhar, who heads the Lokayukta Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating amerciable mining cases successful which Kumaraswamy is an accused, alleged that connected September 28 and 29, the erstwhile CM held property conferences wherever helium made mendacious accusations and issued threats. He besides allegedly accused Chandrasekhar of bribery and falsifying documents to stay successful the Karnataka Indian Police Service cadre.
Chandrasekhar-led SIT is besides presently probing the lease of implicit 500 acres of wood onshore for mining successful Bellary territory during Kumaraswamy’s tenure arsenic the Karnataka CM from 2006 to 2007.
Kumaraswamy’s counsel argued that based connected the FIR, the Karnataka Government was pressing to cancel the anticipatory bail granted 10 years ago. The counsel added that Kumaraswamy was being targeted arsenic helium was successful the Opposition, portion the erstwhile tribunal bid directing an FIR to beryllium filed had been done without exertion of mind.
The tribunal ordered, “For the crushed that the contiguous transgression is registered, the anticipatory bail that was granted 10 years agone ….which is taxable substance ancillary…cannot beryllium cancelled. The authorities is restrained from seeking immoderate specified cancellation successful airy of undertaking of the further SPP that nary coercive steps oregon precipitative enactment volition beryllium taken.”
The tribunal besides said that, successful case, the authorities authorities took enactment contrary to the undertaking, Kumaraswamy would beryllium astatine liberty to determination the court.
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