Bengaluru:
Karnataka high court
recently quashed the proceedings in an extortion case registered in relation to the
electoral bonds issue
against
Nalin Kumar Kateel
, former president of BJP state unit.
In his order,
Justice M Nagaprasanna
stated that the complainant is not only unrelated to the transactions (electoral bonds) but also has no locus to maintain an extortion plaint.
The complaint was filed by Adarsh R Iyer, a Bengaluru-based RTI activist. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) are among the other accused named in the complaint, filed earlier this year.
“The Supreme Court has held that when allegations made in the FIR don’t constitute a prima facie offence, such crime should be nipped in the bud. In the case at hand, there isn’t even a modicum of ingredients of the offence made out, even in the prima faci
