Bengaluru: A special court on Friday (February 28) took fresh cognisance of a chargesheet against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in a sexual assault case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and issued fresh summons to him to appear before it on March 15.
The Karnataka High Court on February 7, while hearing Yediyurappa’s plea seeking quashing of case against him, had directed the special court to consider afresh and pass appropriate orders on the final report of the Karnataka Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the case.
High Court remitted matter back to trial court
The High Court had partly allowed Yediyurappa’s plea challenging the proceedings under the provisions of POCSO Act against him and seeking quashing of the criminal case registered against him.
The High Court, while granting anticipatory bail to Yediyurappa in the case, remitted the matter back to the trial court.
What did the High Court say?
“Writ petition (Filed by Yediyurappa) is allowed in part. The order of taking cognizance by the concerned court dated 04-07-2024, qua accused number 1 (Yeddyurappa) stands obliterated. The crime, the investigation and the final report all remain intact. The matter is remitted back to the hands of the concerned court to pass appropriate orders on the final report so placed before it by the CID bearing in mind the observations made in the course of the order,” the High Court had said.
Case against Yediyurappa was registered last year
The case against 82-year-old Yediyurappa was registered on March 14 last year based on a complaint by the mother of the victim alleging that Yediyurappa sexually assaulted her 17-year-old daughter during a meeting on February 2 last year at his Dollars Colony residence in Bengaluru. The 54-year-old complainant died at a private hospital in Bengaluru in May last year, due to lung cancer, news agency PTI reported.
CID has filed chargesheet against Yediyurappa
The CID, which has probed the case and filed the chargesheet in the case before a Fast Track Court on June 27 last year, has alleged in the charge sheet that Yediyurappa and three other accused paid money to the purported victim and her mother to buy their silence.
