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The High Court of Karnataka connected February 10 declined to assistance anticipatory bail to BJP MLA B.A. Basavaraja successful the lawsuit of execution of Shivaprakash alias Bikla Shiva, a realtor-cum-rowdy-sheeter, who was killed connected July 15, 2025.
Justice S. Sunil Dutt Yadav passed the bid portion rejecting the petition filed by Mr. Basavaraj. With this bid the interim anticipatory granted to him connected December 26, 2025 got cancelled.
Initially Mr. Basavaraja, who has been arraigned arsenic accused number-5 successful the First Information Report (FIR), was booked connected the complaint of conspiracy and murder, and helium had filed a petition earlier the precocious tribunal challenging the FIR. The High Court successful August 2025 had fixed him an interim extortion asking the constabulary “not to instrumentality coercive measurement against him”.
However, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which took implicit probe from the metropolis police, invoked the provisions of the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KCOCA), 2000 against each the accused persons, including him, during pendency of his petition against the FIR. This led him to record different petition earlier the precocious tribunal challenging invocation of KCOCA.
The High Court, successful its December 19, 2025 quashed invocation of KCOCA against him and different accused. Meanwhile, Mr. Basavaraj withdrew his petition challenging the FIR by seeking anticipatory bail from the precocious court, which however, asked him to sound the doors of the sessions court.
However, the peculiar tribunal of sessions for transgression cases against contiguous and erstwhile MPs and MLAs connected December 23 rejected his plea for anticipatory bail stating that probe against him and different accused is not implicit adjacent though the CID had filed complaint expanse against the remaining 18 accused persons.
Following this, the MLA had filed the contiguous petition earlier the High Court, a abrogation seat of which connected December 26 had granted him interim anticipatory bail till the last adjudication of the petition portion noticing that the helium had appeared earlier the metropolis constabulary for questioning but CID had ne'er called him for questioning adjacent though determination was nary specified barroom from the tribunal during the pendency of his petitions against the FIR and the invocation of KCOCA.
