Bengaluru: PU leak accused is chief guest at school event

Bengaluru: One of the accused  in the PU question paper leak case, Anil Kumar B, who managed to secure  bail last month from the High Court, was recently the chief guest at a cluster level sports meet at a government school in Ullal Upanagara. Over 32 schools from West Bengaluru participated in the event.

The 46-year-old realtor and businessman was even felicitated at the function with the other dignitaries present speaking of his services in the field of education.

Mr Kumar, who inaugurated the cluster level sports meet by hurling a shot-put ball to the applause of hundreds of school children and teachers, is one of four accused  in the case, who have managed to get out on conditional bail despite the CID's decision to book all 17 arrested for the PU chemistry question paper leak, including a former BJP corporator,  under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA).

Director General of Police (CID), H.C. Kishore Chandra  decided to  invoke the Act in the question paper leak case to make sure the accused are not released on bail and to also allow their property (both movable and immovable)  to be seized should it have been bought with  ill-gotten money.

But  personal assistant to the Medical Education Minister, Obalaraju, BWSSB assistant engineer, K S Ranganath   PWD manager, M V Rudrappa and Anil Kumar managed to get conditional bail from the high court arguing that  they were first time offenders and as such KCOCA could not apply to them. They contended the stringent Act could be invoked  only against accused who have been chargesheeted in two or more cases of a similar nature.  An advocate, who appeared for one the four , said the court had stayed the use of KCOCA against the accused in the question paper leak case as the police only used it in cases of matka, lottery,  murders and extortions.