The Hindu

Bangalore, Feb 4: B V Seetaram, Director of Chitra Publications which publishes Karavali Ale from Mangalore, who had been in detention for almost a month, walked out of the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday a free man.

Accompanied by his wife S Rohini, Seetaram painfully hobbled out of the court, his leg in plaster, when he was ordered to be released forthwith.

Even as he was being congratulated by his friends and well-wishers after a Division Bench comprising Justice S R Bannurmath and Justice A N Venugopala Gowda pronounced him a free man, two constables who had escorted him from a jail ward in Mysore to the High Court requested him to accompany them back to Mysore.

Stunned by this, Seetaram’s advocate rushed back to the court and the Bench once again made it clear he was a free man and could not be taken into custody. It asked the State Public Prosecutor (SPP) who was present in court to instruct the senior police officials that Seetaram had to walk free.

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