In a reprieve for BJP’s Chickpet MLA Uday B Garudachar, the High Court of Karnataka has set aside the orders of the trial courts in convicting and sentencing him to two months imprisonment for not furnishing a pending criminal case in his affidavit filed along with the nomination papers while contesting election to the Legislative Assembly in 2018.
Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order while allowing a criminal revision petition filed by Mr. Uday challenging the orders of the magistrate and the sessions courts.
The special court of magistrate for trial of cases against MPs and MLAs had convicted him on October 13, 2022; and the special court of sessions to deal with cases against MPs and MLAs on September 11, 2023 had upheld his conviction.
