Mangaluru: The sanction granted by the State government for prosecuting RSS veteran Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka, was stayed by the Karnataka High Court on 13th July, Thursday in the case of delivering a communally provocative speech in 2015.
The summons issued to him by local court in Puttur was also stayed by the High Court. The interim order was passed by Justice Aravind Kumar on the petition filed by Dr Bhat.
Based upon a complaint given by a member of Popular Front of India’s (PFI) district committee against the petitioner, a case was registered on 23rd January, 2015 at the Puttur Town police station.
Forensic Sciences Laboratory’s report given in January 2016 said, “Electronic evidence collected by the police during the course of the investigation is not original and the same is tampered and edited one”. Stating this, all the allegations were termed false.