The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom Tuesday allowed the Lokayukta police to difficulty a contemporary discover to IPS officer Srinath Mahadev Joshi to look in reference to an investigation right into a case pertaining to alleged extortion by a dismissed police constable, Ningappa Savant, by posing as an official of the state anti-corruption company and a intermediary.
The excessive court docket allowed the Lokayukta police to summon the Indian Police Service officer once more because it famous that the sooner date for Joshi’s look within the earlier discover had expired. The court docket additionally said {that a} discover might be issued to Joshi to look earlier than the Lokayukta police inside 10 days and allowed him to hunt anticipatory bail.
On June 18, the HC stayed the summons issued by the Lokayukta police for questioning Joshi, who was a superintendent of police within the Karnataka Lokayukta, till June 12, about his affiliation with Savant.
On Tuesday, the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom additionally reserved its order in a plea filed by Savant to quash the FIR registered by the Lokayukta police in opposition to him within the alleged extortion case. On June 17, the excessive court docket bench of Justice S R Krishna Kumar had stayed the FIR filed in opposition to Savant.
Joshi had earlier sought anticipatory bail from a Lokayukta court docket, however his plea was dismissed on June 24 by the particular court docket as being “devoid of deserves”. He obtained a media gag order on June 20 from a civil court docket in opposition to defamatory reporting relating to the case.
In an announcement final week, the Lokayukta stated, “Joshi was in contact with Ningappa and was concerned in threatening authorities officers to extort cash. They used the code phrase ‘kg’ (for cash), the preliminary probe has revealed. The cash was transformed by investing in cryptocurrency”.
The extortion actions linked to the Karnataka Lokayukta emerged following an extortion try on a regional transport officer (RTO) in Tumkur on Might 23, 2025. The Tumkur RTO filed a criticism with the police, saying he had obtained a name from an unidentified quantity from an individual claiming to be Vamsi Krishna, the SP of the Bengaluru Metropolis Lokayukta unit, demanding cash to forestall a Lokayukta raid on him.
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The probe within the case by the Lokayukta police led to the arrest on June 2 of Savant, who was recognized because the alleged one who known as the Tumkur RTO impersonating a Lokayukta police officer.
Savant was granted bail on June 19 by the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom after his spouse G Ok Chandrakala filed a plea saying the Lokayukta police didn’t observe the procedures mandated by the Supreme Courtroom whereas arresting her husband on June 2.
The Lokayukta police retrieved knowledge from the cellphone they seized from Savant and located that the dismissed police constable was intently related to Joshi via a number of messages and calls. In addition they discovered that Savant had 23 cryptocurrency wallets with round Rs 4.92 crore in 13 of them.
The Lokayukta police searched Joshi’s residence on June 15. They approached the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom on June 30 to permit the continuation of the investigations in opposition to Savant and Joshi, citing public concern over the credibility of the anti-corruption establishment within the wake of the case.