Karnataka HC quashes SC/ST Act case against Baba Kalyani

Bengaluru, Nov 15 (UNI) The Karnataka High Court has quashed criminal proceedings under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, against Bharat Forge Chairman Babasaheb N Kalyani, businessman Ashok Kheny and D Ravishankar, holding that the unexplained 11-year delay in filing the complaint amounted to an abuse of the process of law. Justice M Nagaprasanna, in an order dated November 4, allowed a criminal petition and a connected writ petition challenging the proceedings arising from a land dispute linked to the NICE road project in Bengaluru. The case originated from allegations relating to land in Survey…