Conduct of Chitradurga special court judge in Murugha Mutt seer’s case amounts to contempt, says High Court of Karnataka
1 year, 1 month ago

Conduct of Chitradurga special court judge in Murugha Mutt seer’s case amounts to contempt, says High Court of Karnataka

The Hindu  

The conduct of the judge of the special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act cases in Chitradurga district in issuing non-bailable warrant against Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, seer of Murugarajendra Bruhan Mutt, “amounts to contempt of court for blatantly violating High Court’s orders”, observed the High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday. The High Court also questioned the conduct of the Special Public Prosecutor, attached to the Chitradurga special court for filing a ‘frivolous and mischievous’ memo before the special court stating that the “seer is not appearing before the Special Court and the High Court had not permitted his appearance through video conference and sought issuance of NBW.” “It is not understandable how the SPP filed such a memo when the High Court, while granting bail to the seer on November 8, had restricted the seer from entering Chitradurga till completion of the trial and had specfically allowed him to appear before the special court through VC,” the High Court observed. The High Court also questioned how the judge of the special court conducted the trial or proceedings on Monday for securing the appearance of the seer based on SPP’s memo and issued NBW when the High Court since June 19, 2023 had directed the special court to defer all the proceedings against the seer till the High Court decided seer’s pleas against continuation of criminal proceedings. Summons records Also, the High Court directed its registry to secure all the records of the two criminal cases against the seer from the Chitradurga special court immediately “as the special court conducted itself in a manner, which would become an act of contumacious contempt.”

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