India, Jan. 30 -- The Karnataka High Court has issued a stay on the investigation and legal proceedings in an SC/ST atrocities case filed against Infosys co-founder Senapathy Kris Gopalakrishnan and 15 others. The interim relief was granted by Justice S R Krishna Kumar on Wednesday.

The court further ordered that until the next hearing, no further proceedings or investigations should take place against people who are named in the compliant.

The case against Gopalakrishnan and 17 faculty members was filed under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act based on allegations made by former Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professor Sanna Durgappa. He claimed that from 2010 to 2020, he was subjected to caste-based abuse and was falsely imp...