Karnataka High Court on Monday (July 20) stayed further investigation against a sixth-semester law student who was booked in two separate FIRs over a social media post on the murder of a young woman at the Bantwal bus stand, in which he had alleged that the Congress government would “quietly withdraw” the case against the accused.

Granting interim relief, the single-judge bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna orally observed that the focus of the authorities should be on investigating the murder rather than the student's post.