The High Court of Karnataka has termed as illegal the action of the Inspector General of Police (Eastern Range) transferring the probe of the 2021 case on the blast at a quarry site at Hunasodu near Shivamogga to Cybercrime, Economic Offences, and Narcotics (CEN) police station.
The court also quashed the criminal proceedings and the charge sheet filed by the CEN police station sleuths against three of the accused persons in the case.
However, the court gave liberty to the jurisdictional Shivamogga Rural police to conduct the investigation and submit the final report in accordance with law in the criminal case registered in 2021.
