The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday lifted stay order against continuation of probe in some of the corruption cases registered by the State’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and permitted the investigating agency to go ahead with the probe.
Justice John Michael Cunha passed the interim order, while modifying the interim order passed by another single judge,while hearing a batch of petitions filed by T.R. Shivaramu and other public servants from different districts across the State.
The court said the investigation cannot be stalled by the court as there was a bar on the courts on staying proceedings initiated against the public servants under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
On claim of some of the petitioners that the ACB had not been declared as a police station for registration of first information report (FIRs), the court held that the State had already notified that the offices of the Deputy Superintendents of Police are police stations for registering FIRs under the Prevention of Corruption Act by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
