Congress MLA and chairman of the Karnataka City Water Provide and Drainage Board Vinay Kulkarni, 56, who’s in jail in reference to the 2016 homicide of BJP employee Yogesh Gowda in North Karnataka’s Dharwad, has moved a particular court docket in Bengaluru in search of to be launched on bail for 10 days in reference to a surgical procedure for his son.
Kulkarni was arrested for the second time within the homicide case on June 14 after the Supreme Courtroom cancelled his bail on June 6 following allegations by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with regard to influencing witnesses. The particular court docket is more likely to determine on Kulkarni’s bail plea on Tuesday.
The CBI has opposed the plea, stating that it will hamper the trial. Kulkarni has sought bail on humanitarian grounds on account of his son’s leg surgical procedure. The probe company has argued that it’s not an emergency surgical procedure and therefore pressing bail just isn’t mandated.
“The discovered counsel for accused No.15 has filed a bail software underneath Part 439 of CrPC, in search of bail for a restricted interval of 10 days. He has filed a memo with paperwork. Realized Senior Public Prosecutor is current and has vehemently submitted that they might be supplied with enough alternative to file objections since she was served with the copy solely at present morning,” the particular court docket for elected representatives famous on Monday whereas adjourning the plea.
Earlier on April 25, 2025, the particular court docket had cancelled the bail of Chandrashekar Indi alias Chandu Mama, a detailed affiliate of Kulkarni, on accusations of influencing witnesses however had rejected a plea by the CBI to cancel the bail of Kulkarni as properly.
The CBI later approached the Supreme Courtroom and the apex court docket cancelled Kulkarni’s bail on June 6, forcing him to give up earlier than the particular court docket on June 14.
As many as 21 persons are accused within the Yogesh Gowda homicide case of June 15, 2016. Gowda’s household had acquired an nameless letter just a few days earlier than the homicide, warning concerning the BJP employee’s impending demise. He was subsequently murdered at his gymnasium in Dharwad, allegedly by employed assailants.
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Initially, the native police arrested six individuals within the case, however later, on the request of the household of the sufferer, the case was transferred by the then BJP authorities to the CBI and 15 extra individuals, together with the Congress MLA from Dharwad, have been discovered to be concerned.
The CBI has alleged in a supplementary chargesheet that Kulkarni was the “essential conspirator” within the homicide case and that he hatched the conspiracy to kill Gowda, who was perceived as a political risk. His shut relative Chandu Mama is alleged to have supplied the logistical assist to execute the homicide.
In April this 12 months, the particular court docket cancelled Chandu Mama’s bail after the probe company alleged that two witnesses had turned hostile after the discharge of Chandu Mama from jail.