G.O. granted nod for withdrawing 61 criminal cases, including against BJP leaders The Karnataka High Court on Monday restrained the State government from taking any further action based on a August 31, 2020 government order (GO) granting permission for withdrawing 61 criminal cases, including those against MPs and MLAs from the BJP. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty, passed the interim order on a PIL petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties-Karnataka challenging the legality of the GO. Against MPs, MLAs The cases withdrawn include those registered against MPs Pratap Simha and Sumalatha, Law Minister J. Madhuswamy, then Minister C.T. Ravi, Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil, Forest Minister Anand Singh, and M.P. Renukarcharya and Halappa Achar, MLAs.