Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Aug 28: The state high court has quashed the first information report and the hearing of a case against Member of Parliament (MP) Nalin Kumar Kateel that was going on in a subordinate court over the alleged provocative speech delivered by him in the past.
A single judge bench of the high court which heard a criminal petition filed by MP and state BJP president, Nalin Kumar Kateel, seeking to dismiss the case, passed an order, cancelling the first information report and hearing. The hearing in the case was in progress in the people's representatives court here.
The bench upheld the arguments made by advocates for the petitioner. It ordered cancellation of first information report registered against Nalin in Konaje police station, chargesheet, and hearing that is going on in the people's representatives court here.