The Karnataka High Court on Thursday heard a petition filed by Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni challenging the denial of bail by the Special Court for People’s Representatives in connection with the 2016 murder of a BJP worker.

A single-judge bench of Justice S. Sunil Dutt Yadav took up the matter, during which senior advocate C. V. Nagesh, appearing for Kulkarni, pressed for urgent consideration of the bail plea. He submitted that most of the prosecution’s eyewitnesses had turned hostile and argued that there was no justification for keeping the petitioner in custody during the pendency of the trial.

“There is no need to keep the petitioner in custody during the trial. Hence, the petition should be heard urgently and bail should be granted,” Nagesh submitted before the court.

Opposing the

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