Karnataka High Court Grants Interim Relief To BJP MLC N Ravikumar Accused Of Making ‘Vulgar Comments’ Against Chief Secretary

The Karnataka Excessive Court docket in an interim order on Friday (July 4) directed the police “to not take any precipitative motion” until July 8 towards BJP Member of Legislative Council (MLC) N Ravikumar who has been booked for making allegedly derogatory and vulgar feedback towards State’s Chief Secretary and IAS officer Shalini Rajneesh.

The courtroom was listening to Ravikumar’s plea searching for quashing of the FIR registered towards him.

Justice S R Krishna Kumar in its interim order mentioned “Discover issued to respondent, returnable on Tuesday. Until then no precipitative motion be taken towards the petitioner. Petitioner to cooperate with the investigation.”

After the listening to concluded within the matter the courtroom orally remarked, “Politicians are going to a brand new low.”

Throughout the listening to Senior Advocate Arun Shyam showing for the petition argued that the FIR was registered primarily based on a criticism filed by a girl, earlier than which a criticism was lodged by a political celebration. Additional, all of the complainant says that she noticed a TV information report through which the alleged assertion was made. He prayed for an interim reduction by the use of staying the investigation.

Particular Public Prosecutor B A Belliappa opposed the petition submitting that “All the girl IAS officers are up in arms, he’s within the behavior of constructing such statements. Legislation has been set into movement and there’s a TV report. Her (complainant) assertion can be recorded and even the sufferer’s assertion can be recorded.”

Emphasising that the petitioner uttered the alleged derogatory phrases beneath the Statute of (Mahatma) Gandhi, the SPP argued that “If the lordship stays the investigation the courtroom is staying the palms of the sufferer.”

Additional he pointed to the courtroom that the petitioner has moved a petition searching for anticipatory bail and concurrently he can’t search reduction right here (earlier than excessive courtroom).

“Morale of police will go down if this (keep) is allowed like this,” Belliappa argued. It was additionally delivered to the discover of the courtroom that the petitioner had earlier made an objectionable assertion towards the Kalaburagi District Collector, Fauzia Tarannum.

After listening to the events the courtroom issued the interim order.