In a major setback to the Lokayukta police, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday quashed the alleged corruption case registered against K. Madal Virupakshappa, BJP’s former MLA and former chairperson of Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd. (KSDL).
The court said there was not even prima facie ingredient of either demand or acceptance of bribe to continue the case against him. “If there is not even a whisper of any demand or acceptance of bribe by the petitioner [Mr. Virupakshappa], it is ununderstandable as to how the proceedings can be permitted to be continued against him,” the court said while observing that permitting continuation of criminal proceedings would become “an abuse of the process of law and result in miscarriage of justice.”
