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SC erases Karnataka HC order clearing Bangrappa in corruption case

The Supreme Court has, in a significant order, erased a Karnataka high court judgement discharging former chief minister S Bangrappa and his private secretary R Suri Babu in a corruption case.

A division bench comprising Justice K T Thomas and Justice R P Sethi in a recent order said: "We order that the revision petitions filed in the high court by the respondents would stand withdrawn and consequently the impugned order would stand erased."

The court passed the order after the respondents' counsel submitted that he would withdraw the petition for discharge from the high court without prejudice to their rights to raise appropriate contentions before the trial court.

The CBI had filed the appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the single judge's order discharging Bangrappa and Babu against whom the trial court had ordered framing of charges along with four others in January last year.

The bench made it clear that if the trial court was to decide any question which had been dealt in the high court order, the same should be decided as if no opinion had been given on that question.

PTI

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