Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Mar 27: The state high court has quashed an appeal filed against a lower court order that had refused to entertain the request of the petitioner in Vinayak Baliga murder case to cancel bail granted to main accused, Naresh Shenoy. This appeal was filed by Anuradha Baliga, sister of slain Vinayak Baliga.

Anuradha had gone on appeal against the order of the sixth additional district and sessions court here that had turned down her application to cancel bail to Naresh Shenoy. The single judge bench of the state high court, presided by Justice B A Patil, which had heard the appeal earlier, had reserved its order. It pronounced its order on Tuesday.

Vinayak Baliga 

The high court, while dismissing the appeal, expressed the view that Naresh Shenoy's participation in the annual car festival of the local temple as a devotee and his taking part in the community feast arranged on this occasion as a volunteer and distribution of food to temple devotees cannot be considered as violation of bail conditions.