The High Court of Karnataka on Friday refused to entertain a PIL petition seeking a fresh or reinvestigation into the 2012 case of rape and murder of 17-year-old Soujanya, who was a student of SDM College, Ujire near Dharmasthala in Dakshina Kannada district.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit dismissed the petition filed by Girish Bharadwaj of Bengaluru, Naveen Kumar G. of Belthangady, and Vinayaka Friends Charitable Trust, Puttur.
Stating that it was refraining from imposing cost on the petitioners, the Bench said it would record its reasons for dismissal of the petition in its written order to be released later.
