K'taka HC asks state govt to submit inquiry report on Mangaluru firing

Mangaluru/Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has asked the state government whether an inquiry has been ordered into the Mangaluru police firing incident and if this has been done, to place the report before it.

a division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Hemant Chandangoudar, in response to public interest litigation, directed the petitioners to file a detailed affidavit explaining their activities as social activists and also how they came to the conclusion that the two persons killed in the firing were innocent.

The bench issued these directions after hearing a PIL filed by social activists I K Mohammed Iqbal Elimale and B Ummer, residents of Devachalla village and Gandhi Nagar, respectively, in Sullia of Dakshina Kannada district.

Issuing notice to the Chief Secretary; Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG&IGP) and Harsha, Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru, the bench adjourned the hearing to February 4, 2020.