Dharwad, Oct. 12 -- The Karnataka High Court has restrained the police from taking coercive steps against BJP leader Dr Ravi Patil and two others in a case involving alleged fabrication of 198 applications to delete voters' names from electoral rolls in Belagavi, granting them interim protection till October 13.
The case, which centres on alleged attempts to remove names of Muslim voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, comes amid heightened scrutiny of the voter-list revision process and allegations of misuse of Form 7 applications, used to seek deletion of names from electoral rolls.
Justice Venkatesh Naik T, sitting at the Dharwad bench, passed the interim order on petitions filed by Patil, Prashanth Mund...