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High Court relaxes bail conditions

Halappa (top) and Nithyananda

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday relaxed certain bail conditions of both former Minister Hartalu Halappa and Swami Nithyananda.

Both Nithyananda and Mr. Halappa had been granted bail by the High Court and both had sought relaxation of some conditions.

Nithyananda, who has an ashram at Bidadi called Dhyanapeetam, wanted the High Court to allow him to preach and deliver discourses which it had forbidden when it granted him bail.

He also urged the court to relax the condition that he must present himself before the jurisdictional police once a fortnight.

Justice Subash B. Adi relaxed both the conditions and permitted Nithyananda to give discourses.

In the other case, Mr. Adi relaxed two bail conditions for Mr. Halappa.

Mr. Halappa wanted the court to permit him to move out of Shimoga and also relax the condition that says he should report to the jurisdictional police once a fortnight.

The High Court while granting him bail, he said, had asked him not to leave the jurisdiction of Shimoga police and also report once a fortnight before the Shimoga police.

Mr. Halappa is accused by a woman from Shimoga of having raped her in her house in Shimoga in November last. Mr. Halappa had to quit as Minister after the allegations surfaced. A case was filed against him in a Shimoga court. He was granted conditional bail by the High Court on June 24, 2010.

Mr. Halappa said that as he is a legislator he had to go out of Shimoga and tour other parts of the State regularly. Hence, he wanted the court to relax the condition that he should not leave the jurisdiction of Shimoga court. He also said that he did not have any house in Shimoga. Therefore, he wanted another condition that he should report to the Shimoga police once a fortnight relaxed.

Mr. Adi relaxed the bail conditions of Mr. Halappa too.

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