The Karnataka Excessive Court docket Saturday will hear former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s petition difficult the trial court docket’s cognisance within the case registered in opposition to him final yr beneath the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
Justice M I Arun will hear Yediyurappa’s petition.
The case was initially heard by a single-judge bench of Justice Pradeep Singh Yerur, which had on March 14 granted a keep on cognisance within the case in addition to a keep on the summons for Yediyurappa to seem earlier than the court docket personally.
In March 2024, a girl accused Yediyurappa of inappropriately touching her daughter after they visited him in February to hunt assist concerning an earlier occasion of sexual assault. Based mostly on the grievance from her, the Bengaluru police registered an FIR on March 14 that yr.
The Prison Investigation Division (CID) additionally filed a chargesheet in opposition to Yediyurappa, and three different accused on this case.
Whereas trials in Pocso circumstances are required to be accomplished inside one yr of taking cognisance of offences, authorized challenges have delayed them on this occasion.
Within the March order, Justice Yerur dominated that the good thing about a keep concerning private look could possibly be granted on this case as an identical profit had been given final yr in July, when a bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna had heard a earlier problem.
Justice Yerur said in his order, “Underneath these circumstances, the matter requires an in depth listening to. The State must be given a possibility to file an announcement or produce any materials and handle the arguments on the primary issues. Until then, the good thing about the interim order which enured to the petitioners within the earlier spherical of the petition… must be granted. The petitioners in each these circumstances deserve an identical order, until the following date of listening to, till the matter is set on deserves.”
Story continues beneath this advert
Within the earlier case earlier than Justice Nagaprasanna, the matter was referred again to the Pocso Court docket, as the unique cognisance taken by the court docket had been deemed to be an “unreasoned” order. Nevertheless, Justice Nagaprasanna famous in his order that the registration of the crime, report, and investigation have been all untouched by his order.
The following cognisance of the chargesheet is beneath problem once more on this case earlier than Justice Arun Saturday.