Actors Darshan, Pavithra Gowda and 5 others get common bail in Renukaswamy homicide case

A file picture of actor Darshan Toogudeepa .
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The Excessive Court docket of Karnataka on Friday (December 13, 2024) granted common bail to seven accused individuals, together with actors Darshan and Pavithra Gowda within the Renukawamy kidnap, torture and homicide case.

Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty handed the order whereas permitting the separate petitions filed by Darshan, Pavithra Gowda, Nagaraju R, Anu Kumar alias Anu, Lakshman M, Jagadeesh alias Jagga, and Pradoosh S. Rao.

The petitioner accused individuals, who had been among the many 15 accused individuals in opposition to whom cost sheet has been filed within the case, had been denied bail by the trial courtroom attributable to which they’d knocked the doorways of the Excessive Court docket.

The Excessive Court docket had on October 30 had granted interim bail to Darshan to bear surgical procedure for his again ache.

Renukaswamy, employed at a medical store in Chitradurga, was reportedly kidnapped and murdered at a shed at Pattanagere in R.R. Nagar of Bengaluru on June 8. The crime got here to mild the subsequent day, when a safety guard of an condo advanced noticed the physique close to a storm water drain. The accused had allegedly stored him within the shed, tortured him and murdered him earlier than trying disposing of his physique in a storm-water drain.

It was alleged by the prosecution that the sufferer had despatched some obscene messages and pictures to Pavithra, whom the police had described within the cost sheet as live-in associate of Darshan.

As an alternative of lodging criticism in opposition to Renukaswamy for sending obscene message to her, Pavithra and different accused individuals took legislation into their arms by kidnapping Renukaswamy from Chitraturga and tortured him on the shed in Bengaluru.

The accused had additionally allegedly tried to destroy the useless physique of the sufferer. Nevertheless, when the sufferer useless physique was discovered close to the storm water drain, Darshan had allegedly employed some individuals by paying them cash to falsely personal up the crime in a bid to guard himself, Pavithra and his different shut aides, the police had claimed within the cost sheet.