Overview
- Justice Mohammad Nawaz ordered an interim stay on the investigation until November 12 and restrained the SIT from summoning the four petitioners.
- Activists Girish Mattanavar, Mahesh Shetty Thimarodi, T. Jayanth, and Vittala Gowda filed writ petitions seeking to quash the FIR and recent notices issued under Section 35(3) of the BNSS.
- Their counsel argued the case should have been treated as a non-cognisable matter under BNSS Section 174(1)(i), making the FIR and later-added BNS sections procedurally invalid.
- The SIT cited FSL findings that exhumed remains were male and described a skull presented to a magistrate as fabricated evidence, framing planned reports on alleged perjury.
- Prosecutors said the petitioners led the campaign for the FIR and asserted that complainant C. N. Chinnaiah later retracted his claims, alleging he acted on their advice.