The High Court of Karnataka ordered registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against a police constable, who is facing rape allegation, for fraudulently securing bail from the trial court by suppressing the orders passed by the High Court.
Also, the court imposed a cost of ₹1 lakh on the accused constable, Fakirappa Hatti, for “polluting the stream of justice” by his conduct of securing orders from the courts while also noticing that he had, on an earlier occasion, secured an interim order from the High Court by suppressing earlier orders.
While cancelling the bail granted to him by the trial court, the High Court directed the jurisdictional Deputy Commissioner of police to take the accused constable into custody and produce him before the trial court.
