Overview

• Authorities invoked the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act in the case involving the killing of Abdul Rahiman in Erakodi, Kuryal village under Bantwal rural limits.
• Thirteen suspects have been arrested, produced in court, and sent to judicial custody according to police.
• Investigators identified the absconding accused as Bharath Raj, also known as Bharath Kumdelu, 29, from Pudu village, and said efforts to trace him continue.
• The FIR was filed on May 27 under multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections covering unlawful assembly, rioting with weapons, grievous hurt, attempt to murder, and murder.
• Police cited prior involvement of the accused in serious offences and provocative speeches that heightened communal tensions as grounds to apply the organised crime law.