The Karnataka High Court has quashed an Upalokayukta report and set aside penalties levied against a BBMP engineer, granting relief in a case of alleged dereliction of duty. The order was passed on September 10 by a division bench consisting of Justices D K Singh and Venkatesh Naik and was recently made public. The engineer had approached the high court against the penalty levied on her.

In this case, Geetha C, an assistant executive engineer in Maruti Seva Nagar under the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) in 2014, was the subject of a Upalokayukta inquiry based on a complaint that year by one Susheela. The complainant was involved in a civil dispute with her brother, who had allegedly carried out illegal construction on a disputed property. According to the charges framed by t

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