Overview
- Bengaluru’s 57th CCH Court began hearing evidence on Wednesday with the chief examination of Renukaswamy’s parents held in camera.
- The parents identified clothing found on the body, described visible injuries, and confirmed an engagement ring engraved “RS.”
- Actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, Pavithra Gowda and other accused attended via video link from Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, while two co-accused were absent.
- Defence counsel began cross-examination, and the court adjourned further testimony to Thursday after roughly three hours.
- Seventeen people face IPC charges including murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and destroying evidence, based on a 3,991-page charge sheet with 231 witnesses and allegations of abduction from Chitradurga, assault at a Pattanagere shed, and a body later found in Sumanahalli.