BENGALURU: Karnataka High Court takes further steps in the investigation in the case of burying bodies in Dharmasthala. The court has ordered an interim stay on the investigation into the case registered after the revelations of former sanitation worker Chinnaiah. The action is based on a plea filed by Girish Mattannavar, Jayant T, Mahesh Shetty Timarodi and Vitthala Gowda, suspected to have been involved in the conspiracy in the case. They approached the high court seeking quashing of the FIR lodged in their complaint.

The high court has temporarily stayed the investigation proceedings until a detailed hearing on the plea is held on November 12. The four approached the court, pointing that they have been summoned nine times, and received the tenth on the 27th, and that this is an illegal

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