Kannada actor Darshan was arrested on Thursday, August 14, from his Hosakerehalli in Bengaluru residence in connection with the Renukaswamy murder case after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail. His arrest came shortly after his friend, actress and also a prime accused in the case, Pavithra Gowda, was taken into custody. Besides Darshan, Pavithra Gowda, Lakshman, Pradosh and Nagaraj have been arrested so far in this case, as per new agency ANI.
Visuals show the actor being taken away in a police van amid heavy security. The actor has been taken to the Annapoorneshwarinagar police station and will later be produced before the court.
According to the news agency IANS, Darshan was arrested at the house of his wife Vijayalakshmi in Hosakerehalli. He wanted to evade arret and surrender in court, but the police got information about his stay and arrested him, sources told Deccan Chronicle.
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Minister Santosh Lad said, "I don't want to say much about it because when the Supreme Court has given a verdict, we all have to accept and abide by it."
Earlier in the day, a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan quashed the interim bail granted to Darshan by the Karnataka High Court, stating that he was given bail without adequate consideration of the witness intimidation and other illegalities. The Karnataka government had also filed a plea in the apex court against the actor's bail order.