SC stays discharge of Bangarappa, asks trial court to proceed

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 20: The Supreme Court has stayed the Karnataka High Court order quashing charges framed against former chief minister ...

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 20: The Supreme Court has stayed the Karnataka High Court order quashing charges framed against former chief minister S Bangarappa and directed the trial against him and other accused to proceed in a corruption case.

A division bench comprising Justices K T Thomas and M B Shah, while hearing a CBI appeal, said “we suspend the high court judgement and direct the trial court to proceed with the trial against all the accused."

The trial court had on January eight, 1999 ordered framing of charges against Bangarappa and other accused under Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act.

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However, when Bangarappa and his then private secretary R Suri Babu appealed against the framing of charges against them, the high court had quashed the charges and discharged them from the case.

CBI had registered the case in 1996 against Bangarappa and his then private secretary R Suri Babu, on the directions of the apex court, for allegedly taking huge amounts of bribe to grant affiliation to P C Dental and nursing college with the Bangalore university.

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