Archive · 7 Aug 2026
Court Refuses to Quash FIR Against Advocate in Bribery Case
A lawyer in India is in trouble with the police.
Her name is Dayina Banu, and she works in a city called Mysuru.
Police say she took money from a mother whose son was in jail for a serious crime.
The mother wanted her son to be let out on bail.
Banu is accused of saying the money was needed to pay a judge so the judge would help.
That would be very wrong, because judges must be fair and cannot be bribed.
Banu asked a big court, called the Karnataka High Court, to stop the police investigation.
The court said no, and that the police should be allowed to keep investigating.
The court also said trying to bribe a judge is very serious, so the investigation will go on.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a petition by Mysuru-based advocate Dayina Banu seeking to quash an FIR against her.
Banu is accused of collecting money from the mother of a murder accused on the pretext of bribing a High Court judge to secure bail.
The FIR was registered at Vidhana Soudha Police Station following a complaint by the Registrar General of the High Court.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna held that an FIR is only the starting point of an investigation and halting it early would amount to abuse of the legal process.
The court said such allegations strike at the integrity of the judiciary and ordered the investigation to continue.
- Who
- Karnataka High Court Justice M. Nagaprasanna dismissed a petition filed by Mysuru-based advocate Dayina Banu, who is accused of collecting money from the mother of a murder accused.
- What
- The High Court refused to quash the FIR and allowed the investigation into the alleged attempt to bribe a High Court judge to continue.
- When
- The alleged demand for money to secure bail occurred in 2021; the High Court order was passed during the current proceedings (specific date not stated in the article).
- Where
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; the FIR was registered at Vidhana Soudha Police Station.
- Why
- The court held that allegations of attempting to influence judges strike at the credibility and integrity of the judiciary, so a thorough investigation must not be halted at the preliminary stage.
- Court
- Karnataka High Court
- Judge
- Justice M. Nagaprasanna
- Accused
- Advocate Dayina Banu (Mysuru-based)
- Complainant
- Registrar General of the High Court
- Police Station
- Vidhana Soudha Police Station, Bengaluru
- Allegation
- Collecting money to purportedly bribe a High Court judge for a murder accused's bail
- Alleged Incident Year
- 2021
- Outcome
- Petition dismissed; investigation allowed to continue