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The Karnataka High Court on Thursday stayed the proceedings against Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant and two other policers for the alleged delay in filing First Information Report in the infamous Ramesh Jarkiholi Case.

Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar who stayed the Magistrate’s order said,
 "FIR in the said case was registered after the victim girl came forward and gave FIR through her lawyer. Investigation is completed and the final report is ready. It is not filed because of an interim order issued by the High Court…. It appears that the complainant is not aware of all these proceedings and in these circumstances investigation against petitioners as ordered by the Magistrate, is not proper. Therefore, till next date operation of the impugned order stands stayed."
The police trio, which also comprises of DCP Anucheth and Inspector B Maruthi moved the Karnataka High Court challenging a Magistrate court’s order which had ordered inquiry against the officers for delaying registering an FIR in the Ramesh Jarkiholi sex scandal case.
The Magistrate Court had taken up the matter based on a private complaint filed by one Adarsh R Iyer who said that the police officers had purposefully delayed filing the FIR in the sex scandal case involving the former State minister. 
The policers officers had challenged the subordinate court’s order after the later had directed the Cubbon park police to investigate a private complaint filed against the three of them under section 156 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code for allegedly delaying registering FIR in the Sex CD scandal involving former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi. 
The petition filed by Pant and others state that the order passed by the magistrate is contrary to law, facts and material available on record. The magistrate has slipped into an error, resulting in grave miscarriage of justice to them, the petition avers. 
The plea also states that an FIR is registered based on the complaint given by the victim girl. Hence, the allegations made by Iyer that the petitioners have failed to record any information given to them under section 154 (1) of CrPC is far from the truth.
It is also said that an SIT was constituted by an order issued by the Commissioner of Police and the investigation carried out is now being investigated by the High Court. There exists no dereliction of duty on part of the petitioners.
The petition by way of interim relief seeks to stay the operation, execution and all further proceedings pursuant to the order dated November 23, passed by the Magistrate court.