The Karnataka High Court has directed Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO & MD of Ola Electric Technologies Private Limited, and Subrat Kumar Das—Head of Homologation Engineering —to actively cooperate in an ongoing criminal investigation into the suicide of engineer K Aravind, an employee of the company.

Justice Mohammad Nawaz on Wednesday also extended the interim protection granted to them, directing police not to harass the petitioners in the guise of investigation, till November 17. The court was hearing the petition filed by the petitioners challenging the FIR registered against them.

The case stems from an FIR filed by Aravind's brother Ashwin Kannan with the Subramanyapura police, alle­ging abetment to suicide under Section 108 of the BNS Act.

The deceased had allegedly left behind a death no

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