CAV ORDER

(PER: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SREENIVAS HARISH KUMAR)

These two writ petitions seek reinvestigation or denovo investigation in relation to Crime No. 250/2012 registered at Belthangady police station for the offences punishable under sections 376 and 302 of IPC. The factual ground is as follows :

2. On 09.10.2012, a girl by name Soujanya did not return home from college. Her father made a complaint to Belthangady police about missing of his daughter. The police registered it in Crime No. 250/2012. On the next day, i.e., 10.10.2012, the dead body of Soujanya (‘the girl’ for short) was found in bushes near a place called Mannasanka. The postmortem revealed the girl being strangled to death after being raped. Upon a report made by one Jagadish, uncle of the girl, the police invoked the penal sections 376 and 302 of IPC in the FIR already registered in Crime No. 250/2012. In the initial stage the investigation was undertaken by Belthangady police, but yielding to public outcry and considering the sensitivity of the matter, the Government entrusted the investigation to CID, which charge sheeted one Santhosh Rao, the writ petitioner in W.P.5871/2024 for the offences under sections 376