Murder case: Complete trial against MLA Vinay Kulkarni within three months, says HC
While refusing to interfere with the charges framed by a special court against MLA Vinay R. Kulkarni in a 2016 murder case, the High Court of Karnataka has asked the special court to accomplish the trial and dispose of the criminal case against him preferably within three months.
The High Court said that the charges framed by the special court set up exclusively to deal with criminal cases against former and present MPs and MLAs show that due process was undertaken by the judge of the special court.
Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order while dismissing the petition led by Mr. Kulkanri, who is presently Congress MLA for Dharwad constituency.
“Ideally speaking, the impugned order (charges framed by the special court) could have been scripted bit elaborately and in a reasoned way. There is scope for improvement even in heaven, said Oscar Wilde, an Irish Writer (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900),” the High Court said while rejecting the petitioner’s contention that charges could not be sustained for want of proper reasoning. The argument that “there is absolutely no material to connect the petitioner to the commission of o§ences and therefore, no charge could have been framed against him, is difcult to countenance. The case of prosecution against the petitioner is one of circumstantial evidence that galores on record,” the High Court observed.
Meanwhile, the High Court refused to accept the claim of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that Mr. Kulkarni abused the process of law by lling petition after petition challenging the criminal proceedings.