Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 21: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Karnataka High Court order, dropping of stringent Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act (KCOCA) charges, against the accused Mohan Nayak in the Gauri Lankesh murder case of 2017.
The bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar heard the appeal filed by Gauri Lankesh’s sister, Kavitha Lankesh who had appealed to SC against the State High Court’s decision and restored the charges under KCOCA.
Notably, in June the Supreme Court had said that the accused should not be granted bail until Lankesh’s plea was decided. In April 2021, the High Court had quashed the Bengaluru Commissioner of Police’s report, as well as the supplementary charge sheet in the case and subsequently the KCOCA charges against the accused, were dropped.
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru in 2017.
