The High Court of Karnataka has upheld the 2016 order of the Special Court for CBI cases in discharging two retired IAS officers and the executives of a mining company in an illegal mining case.
Justice K. Somashekar passed the order while dismissing the revision petitions filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), challenging Special Court’s January 30, 2016 order of discharging them from all the charges.
The CBI had challenged the discharge of Rajendra Kumar Jain, managing director, and Ritesh Milapchand Jain, chief executive officer, of Deccan Mining Syndicate Pvt. Ltd., Ballari; N. Vishwanathan and Shameem Bhanu, both retired additional chief secretaries of the State government; S.P. Raju, retired deputy director, Mines and Geology Department; and Ramakant Y. Hullar, then circle inspector of police, Sandur police station.
