If investigations into the death of IAS officer D.K. Ravi are handed over to the CBI, then this will be the second high-profile case given to the agency by the Siddaramaiah government.
The State government had handed over a case regarding alleged rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dakshina Kannada district in 2013. Unfortunately, even after two years, the CBI has failed to make headway into the case, according to sources.
Five cases had been handed over to the CBI by governments in the past 27 years, including the murder of Rasheed, an advocate from Kerala, when Ramakrishna Hegde was heading the Janata government in the mid 1980s.
Similarly, Opposition parties have demanded a CBI probe in as many as 17 cases since 2004.