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Bengaluru
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed chargesheet successful the realtor and rowdy sheeter V.G. Shivaprakash alias Bikla Shiva execution lawsuit against 17 accused successful a metropolis tribunal connected Monday.
However, the CID has not yet filed charges against BJP MLA for K.R. Puram Byrathi Basavaraj (accused 5 successful the FIR) arsenic helium is absconding, and the CID teams are searching for him successful transportation with the case. This is lone the archetypal chargesheet and much supplementary chargesheets volition travel with further probe into the case, sources said.
The High Court connected December 19 quashed the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA), 2000, invoked against him successful the case, but rejected anticipatory bail, but asked him to attack the sessions tribunal for the same. Mr. Basavaraj filed an anticipatory bail plea earlier the sessions tribunal connected Saturday, which came up for proceeding connected Monday. The tribunal adjourned the lawsuit for Tuesday, without immoderate interim alleviation to the petitioner.
Multiple CID teams are searching for Mr. Basavaraj intending to apprehension him, fixed the tribunal has not granted him interim relief. The sources said that the CID was besides moving towards getting a Look Out Notice issued against the MLA.
Meanwhile, the CID is each acceptable to record a Special Leave Petition (SLP) successful the Supreme Court challenging the caller High Court bid which quashed invoking the KCOCA, 2000 successful the case. “The mentation of prerequisites to invoke the KCOCA, 2000 successful a lawsuit successful the caller bid is an mentation Karnataka Police cannot hold with. This bid volition person an interaction connected the different KCOCA cases arsenic well. So we volition person to situation the bid successful the Supreme Court. In the Gauri Lankesh lawsuit arsenic well, the High Court quashed invoking the KCOCA, 2000, interpreting it differently. We challenged it successful the Supreme Court and won the case,” said a elder constabulary serviceman of the State.
