Court extends judicial custody of Darshan & other accused till 12 Sept
All the 17 accused, including Darshan and Pavithra, were produced before the 24th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court through video conferencing from prisons across the state, where they are lodged, as their judicial custody ended on Monday
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Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa
Bengaluru, 9 Sep
A court here on Monday extended
till 12 September the judicial custody of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa
along with his friend Pavithra Gowda and others, who are accused in the
Renukaswamy murder case.
All the 17 accused, including
Darshan and Pavithra, were produced before the 24th Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate court through video conferencing from various prisons
across the state, where they are lodged, as their judicial custody ended on
Monday. Police last week submitted to the court a 3,991-page preliminary
chargesheet in the case.
Meanwhile, Darshan has filed a writ
petition in the High Court, requesting a directive to restrain media outlets
from broadcasting or publishing any details from the chargesheet.
The 47-year-old actor is currently
lodged in Ballari prison. He was shifted there from the Parappana Agrahara
Central jail here by obtaining court permission, after a photograph of him
hanging out with three others, including a rowdy-sheeter, on the lawns of the
jail had gone viral, sparking an uproar.
In the picture, the actor is seen
in a relaxed mood, sitting on a chair and holding a cigarette and a coffee mug.
Also, a purported video of Darshan speaking to a person over a video call from
the prison too had surfaced on social media. The court had also permitted
shifting of other co-accused in the murder case to various prisons in the
state.
Other accused -- Pawan, Raghavendra
and Nandish -- are now lodged in Mysuru Jail, Jagadish and Lakshmana in
Shivamogga Jail, Dhanraj in Dharwad Jail, Vinay in Vijayapura Jail, Nagaraj in
Kalaburagi/Gulbarga Jail, and Pradosh in Belagavi Jail.
Three accused -' Pavithra Gowda,
Anukumar, and Deepak -- continue to remain at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail
here. Four accused -- Ravi, Karthik, Nikhil and Keshavamurthy -- were earlier
shifted to Tumakuru prison and they continue to remain lodged there.
Nine prison officials, including
the Chief Superintendent of the Parappana Agrahara jail, were suspended over
their "lapses" after a preliminary probe into "special
treatment" to Darshan. Also, three FIRs were registered, including against
Darshan, under sections of the Prisons Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
According to police sources,
33-year-old Renukaswamy, a fan of the actor, had sent obscene messages to
Pavithra, which enraged Darshan, allegedly leading to his murder. His body was
found near a stormwater drain next to an apartment in Sumanahalli here on June
nine.
Raghavendra, one of the accused who
is part of Darshan's fan club in Chitradurga, had brought Renukaswamy to a shed
in RR Nagar here, on the pretext that the actor wanted to meet him. It was in
this shed that he was allegedly tortured and murdered. According to the
post-mortem report, Renukaswamy, a native of Chitradurga, died due to shock and
haemorrhage as a result of multiple blunt injuries.
Police sources said Pavithra, who
is accused number one, was the "major cause" for Renukaswamy’s
murder, claiming that it has been proved from the probe that she instigated
other accused, conspired with them, and took part in the crime.
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