<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Thursday its judgment on a plea by the Karnataka government challenging the High Court's order granting regular bail to Kannada film actor Darshan in the Renukaswamy murder case.</p><p>A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan would deliver the judgement at 10.30 am on August 14.</p><p>Justice Mahadevan is to pronounce the order on behalf of the bench, as per the Supreme Court's website.</p>.Electoral rolls can't be static, EC's move voter friendly: SC.<p>The court had on July 24 reserved the judgment on the special leave petition filed by the state government represented through senior advocate Sidharth Luthra and advocates Anil C Nishani and D L Chidananda.</p><p>The bench had then come down heavily upon the Karnataka High Court over the bail order, saying the manner in which the order was pronounced, it looked like this was a case of acquittal.</p><p>Finding the order as "perverse prima facie exercise of discretion", the court also questioned the high court over raising doubts on the grounds of arrest in the murder case in its order passed on December 13, 2024.</p><p>"What is troubling is reasoning given especially saying the grounds of arrest were not mentioned in a case of murder," the bench said.</p><p>On July 17, 2025, the court had also expressed its reservation with the order and said it was “not at all convinced” by the manner in which the high court exercised its discretion.</p><p>Darshan, a 47-year-old Kannada actor, was arrested on June 11, 2024 in connection with the murder of 33-year-old Renukaswamy, a native of Chitradurga. </p><p>The victim’s body was discovered near a stormwater drain in Bengaluru on June 9, 2024.</p><p>According to the police, Renukaswamy had allegedly sent obscene messages to Darshan’s associate, Pavithra Gowda, which enraged the actor.</p><p>Police investigation led to the arrest of actor Darshan, his close friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 other associates.</p><p>The Bengaluru police also filed a chargesheet on September 3 naming Pavithra as accused number 1 and Darshan as the accused number 2. Police claimed that Renukaswamy's act of sending offensive messages to Pavithra was the motive of the offence.</p><p>Others named in the chargesheet were Pawan K, 29; Raghavendra, 43; Nandish, 28; Jagadish, 36; Anukumar, 25; Ravi Shankar, 32; Dhanraj D, 27; Vinay V, 38; Nagaraju, 41; Laxman, 54; Deepak, 39; Pradosh, 40; Karthik, 27; Keshavamurthy, 27, and Nikhil Nayak, 21.</p><p>The actor was first granted interim bail on medical grounds on October 30, 2024. </p><p>All the 17 accused are currently out on bail.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Thursday its judgment on a plea by the Karnataka government challenging the High Court's order granting regular bail to Kannada film actor Darshan in the Renukaswamy murder case.</p><p>A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan would deliver the judgement at 10.30 am on August 14.</p><p>Justice Mahadevan is to pronounce the order on behalf of the bench, as per the Supreme Court's website.</p>.Electoral rolls can't be static, EC's move voter friendly: SC.<p>The court had on July 24 reserved the judgment on the special leave petition filed by the state government represented through senior advocate Sidharth Luthra and advocates Anil C Nishani and D L Chidananda.</p><p>The bench had then come down heavily upon the Karnataka High Court over the bail order, saying the manner in which the order was pronounced, it looked like this was a case of acquittal.</p><p>Finding the order as "perverse prima facie exercise of discretion", the court also questioned the high court over raising doubts on the grounds of arrest in the murder case in its order passed on December 13, 2024.</p><p>"What is troubling is reasoning given especially saying the grounds of arrest were not mentioned in a case of murder," the bench said.</p><p>On July 17, 2025, the court had also expressed its reservation with the order and said it was “not at all convinced” by the manner in which the high court exercised its discretion.</p><p>Darshan, a 47-year-old Kannada actor, was arrested on June 11, 2024 in connection with the murder of 33-year-old Renukaswamy, a native of Chitradurga. </p><p>The victim’s body was discovered near a stormwater drain in Bengaluru on June 9, 2024.</p><p>According to the police, Renukaswamy had allegedly sent obscene messages to Darshan’s associate, Pavithra Gowda, which enraged the actor.</p><p>Police investigation led to the arrest of actor Darshan, his close friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 other associates.</p><p>The Bengaluru police also filed a chargesheet on September 3 naming Pavithra as accused number 1 and Darshan as the accused number 2. Police claimed that Renukaswamy's act of sending offensive messages to Pavithra was the motive of the offence.</p><p>Others named in the chargesheet were Pawan K, 29; Raghavendra, 43; Nandish, 28; Jagadish, 36; Anukumar, 25; Ravi Shankar, 32; Dhanraj D, 27; Vinay V, 38; Nagaraju, 41; Laxman, 54; Deepak, 39; Pradosh, 40; Karthik, 27; Keshavamurthy, 27, and Nikhil Nayak, 21.</p><p>The actor was first granted interim bail on medical grounds on October 30, 2024. </p><p>All the 17 accused are currently out on bail.</p>
