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The Supreme Court on 21 September 2026 ordered a fresh investigation by a Special Investigation Team into the 2012 rape and murder of a 17 year old near Dharmasthala in Karnataka, saying the manner in which the earlier investigation was conducted shocks the conscience of the court. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva set aside a Karnataka High Court judgment that had dismissed the victim's family's plea for reinvestigation, and directed that no officer who was part of the earlier Belthangady Police, state CID or CBI investigating teams be included in the new SIT. The lone accused in the case had been acquitted by a trial court in June 2023, which held the original investigation had not been properly conducted in the golden hour after the crime. The fresh investigation must be completed within three months, after which a police report is to be filed before the trial court.