Jarkiholi CD scandal: Karnataka High Court directs SIT to submit report

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to sumit the report on the former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi CD scandal, before Additional Commissioner of Police Soumendu Mukherjee, who is heading the team, to pass appropriate orders and later submit it to the court in a sealed cover.

allegedly involving former BJP minister Ramesh Jarkiholi,

The order was passed by a division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum after senior advocate Indira Jaising, representing the victim, pointed out that the report prepared by ACP MC Kavitha, the investigating officer in the absence of Mukherjee, was on leave for three months.

“The report submitted in the sealed cover has been opened. The said report has been perused. We are of the considered view that once the SIT was constituted, headed by Soumendu Mukherjee, the report prepared by Kavitha should have been placed before him and approved by him. Let this report be submitted before him for appropriate orders. Thereafter, it should be submitted before the court in a sealed cover on November 29, 2021, the next date of hearing,” the court stated in the order, after hearing a batch of petitions on the issue.