BENGALURU: The Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru has adjourned the pronouncement of its judgment to April 15 in the murder case of BJP leader and Zilla Panchayat member Yogesh Gowda, in which sitting Dharwad Rural Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni is an accused.
The case dates back to 2016 and the court will also decide the fate of 21 other accused in connection with the incident.
The court was scheduled to deliver the verdict today. It stated that the pronouncement of the judgment is in its final stage. Counsels representing both sides have submitted thousands of pages of Supreme Court judgments in reference to this case.
Vinay Kulkarni and the other accused persons were present in court.
Vinay Kulkarni is listed as accused number 15. The case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the state government. At the time the allegations surfaced, Kulkarni was serving as a minister and district incharge minister.
Yogesh Gowda was hacked to death by a group of assailants at a gym in Dharwad city on June 15, 2016. He had politically challenged Kulkarni, and the incident soon took a worse turn.