The special court set up to deal with the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) cases can also try cases against the accused persons facing charges only under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) when such persons are linked to the case of same incident/transaction registered under specified criminal laws that are exclusively triable by the special court for NIA cases, said the High Court of Karnataka.
DJ Halli case
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while rejecting a petition filed by 28-year-old Sayyed Sohel Torvi, a resident of Bengaluru. The petitioner is an accused in the chargesheet filed by the NIA on the violence occurred in KG Halli-DJ Halli localities in the city on August 11, 2020.
