Chandrashekar had approached the court docket demanding registration of an FIR in opposition to Kumaraswamy.
Bengaluru:
Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Metal HD Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy bought aid from the Karnataka Excessive Court docket in reference to the FIR registered in opposition to him based mostly on the criticism by Lokayukta SIT ADGP M Chandrashekar.
The Excessive Court docket bench handed the order on Wednesday whereas wanting into the petition by Kumaraswamy looking for quashing of the FIR. ADGP Chandrashekhar has registered the criticism in opposition to Union Minister Kumaraswamy at Bengaluru’s Sanjaynagar Police Station.
The Excessive Court docket has ordered that no coercive motion be taken in opposition to him and granted him interim aid.
Senior counsel Hashmat Pasha, showing for Kumaraswamy, argued that the police are trying to cancel a 10-year-old anticipatory bail by reviving the case.
The Excessive Court docket dominated that the FIR can’t be used to revoke outdated anticipatory bail. Moreover, the Excessive Court docket recorded a press release from the State Public Prosecutor (SPP) that no coercive measures could be taken in opposition to Kumaraswamy on this matter.
Karnataka Police had registered an FIR in opposition to Kumaraswamy, on Tuesday as per the instructions of a court docket.
Senior IPS officer Chandrashekar had accused Kumaraswamy of defaming and threatening him and his household.
Sanjaynagar police in Bengaluru had registered the FIR in opposition to Kumaraswamy.
The FIR is registered beneath Part 224 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023.
The police have named Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy because the second accused within the case.
C B Suresh Babu, the JD-S social gathering ground chief within the Legislative Meeting is called because the third accused within the case.
The police had taken a non-cognisable miscellaneous case.
Chandrashekar had approached the court docket demanding registration of an FIR in opposition to Kumaraswamy.
Chandrashekar, in his criticism to the court docket, had alleged that he had been heading the SIT group probing a case of unlawful mining in 2014 – case no. 16/2014 and after getting extra proof within the case, the investigating group had sought sanction of prosecution from the Governor lately.
In response to this, HD Kumaraswamy held a press convention on September 28 and 29 – the place the minister made malicious accusations, threatening the IPS officer and his members of the family.
The IPS officer, in his criticism to the court docket, alleged that Kumaraswamy orally threatened him that he could be shunted to a different state cadre and likewise made ill-intended allegations in opposition to his members of the family.
In reply to the costs, Chandrashekar wrote a letter to his employees and refuted all allegations calling it false and malicious.
Chandrashekar concluded his letter by quoting George Bernard Shaw’s well-known strains, “By no means wrestle with a pig since you’ll each get soiled, and the pig likes it.”
Kumaraswamy expressed outrage on Tuesday, calling the FIR filed in opposition to him based mostly on a criticism by a senior IPS officer, Lokayukta SIT chief, M. Chandrashekar as “ridiculous and malicious.”
Kumaraswamy responded to media questions, saying, “Throughout this by-election, the Congress-led state authorities is focusing on us out of sheer animosity. I’ll reply to this by way of the judiciary.”
“I’ve learn the FIR and the criticism’s content material. It’s utterly ridiculous and clearly malicious. The complainant has acknowledged that I allegedly made accusations in opposition to him in a press convention and has requested for motion. Did I present false details about him? He can overview my press convention video if he needs,” mentioned the Union Minister.
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