Overview

• Police pasted a notice at M.D. Sameer’s Ballari residence directing him to appear before the investigating officer on August 24.
• Sameer received anticipatory bail on August 21 from the Dakshina Kannada Principal District and Sessions Court with instructions to cooperate and avoid inflammatory statements.
• A suo motu case registered on July 12 at the Dharmasthala police station cites BNS Sections 192, 240 and 353(1)(b) over a video authorities describe as provocative and misleading.
• The case centers on a 23-minute clip that police say spread misinformation, which other reports have described as allegedly AI-generated.
• The Special Investigation Team arrested and identified the complainant as C N Chinnaiah, a former sanitation worker who has alleged murders, sexual assaults and secret burials over two decades, claims now under investigation.