Overview
- Four criminal cases linked to the Aug. 15 Chamarajanagar forest encounter, in which three suspected poachers were killed, have been moved to the Karnataka Criminal Investigation Department for immediate probe.
- Director General of Police M.A. Saleem directed the Chamarajanagar superintendent to hand over case files and the investigating officers to the CID Special Units and Economic Offences in Bengaluru.
- The transferred files carry specific crime numbers from Ramapura, Hanur and Kollegala Rural police stations and list multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita plus the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
- News reports say 11 anti-poaching camps, staff quarters and government vehicles in the Cauvery and Male Mahadeshwara sanctuaries were vandalised and some camps were allegedly blown up, and the CID has been asked to examine those incidents.
- The detailed CID report ordered by police headquarters could determine legal accountability for the use of force in the encounter and for the subsequent damage, and may influence the political scrutiny of the case.