Overview
- Justice Mohammad Nawaz ordered an interim stay on the investigation and barred fresh summons to four activists until the next hearing on November 12.
- The petition seeks quashing of the FIR and SIT notices, alleging police should have referred the initial statements to a magistrate under BNSS and that later BNS sections were added improperly.
- The SIT led by IPS Pronab Mohanty was preparing an interim report to the government and a complaint report to the magistrate on alleged perjury and a disputed skull, plans now paused by the stay.
- Investigators reported FSL findings that two exhumed bodies were male and concluded the skull shown in court was not exhumed by complainant C. N. Chinnaiah, who later retracted key allegations.
- The four petitioners, who had supported the complainant, said they received nine summonses and then a tenth notice under Section 35(3) indicating possible arrest on appearance.