Bengaluru, Feb. 12 -- BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, 64, faces impending arrest after the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected his anticipatory bail plea in the Bengaluru realtor V G Shivaprakash alias Bikla Shiva murder case, following a similar rejection by the Karnataka High Court and a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) lookout notice.
A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi "dismissed as withdrawn" the plea moved by Basavaraj on Wednesday, a day after the High Court had rejected it. The BJP MLA from K R Puram constituency withdrew the plea after the CID filed a caveat seeking to be heard before considering anticipatory bail.
The CID had issued a lookout notice on February 10, soon after the High Court ...