Praveen Subramanya Bhat who was earlier convicted in a triple murder case by the Second Additional District Court of Belagavi has been acquitted by the High Court of Karnataka in Dharwad.
In a case that had drawn the attention of the country, Bhat, a student then, was accused of murdering a housewife Reena Rakesh Malagatti and her two children Aditya and Sahitya at her residence in Kuvempu Nagar in Belagavi on August 16, 2015.
Registering the case, the APMC Police of Belagavi arrested Malagatti’s neighbour Bhat within a day. Bhat was pursuing Chartered Accountancy course then. The police charged him with having an illicit relationship with the woman that consequently had gone sour, finally leading to the crime.
