BENGALURU: Holding that merely on the basis of oral defence, courts cannot conduct a mini trial or enquiry for quashing the criminal proceedings, the Karnataka high court has refused to quash the proceedings against an accused in Civil Police Constable Recruitment Examination question paper leak case of 2018.
One DC Manjunath, a resident of Magadi taluk in Ramanagara district had approached the court seeking quashing of the crime registered by the Cyber Crime Police, Bengaluru.