Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday stayed the sanction granted by the state government for prosecuting Sangh Parivar functionary Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka, in a case of allegedly delivering an inflammatory speech in 2015, and also the summons issued to him by a court in Puttur which had taken cognisance of offence based on a charge sheet.
Justice Aravind Kumar passed the interim order on a petition filed by Dr. Bhat, a medical practitioner and a social worker.
Puttur Town police had registered a case on January 23, 2015 against the petitioner based on a complaint given by a member of Popular Front of India’s (PFI) district committee. The Puttur court had issued summons to him on June 24, 2017 based on the charge sheet filed by the police after the State government on March 18, 2017 granted sanction for prosecuting him based on a request made by the police on March 8, 2017.
Terming the allegations as false, it has been claimed in the petition that the Forensic Sciences Laboratory’s report given in January 2016 had stated that the electronic evidence collected by the police during the course of the investigation is not original and the same is tampered and edited one.
