Sandeep Patil had appeared before the SIT to provide clarifications on a probe against hacker Srikrishna Ramesh in connection with the Karnataka Bitcoin scam.
While former Crime Branch police inspector Sridhar Pujar’s anticipatory bail plea was rejected, the bail plea of former Crime Branch technical cell inspector Prashanth Babu was allowed in the Karnataka Bitcoin scam case.
The four former crime branch officers accused in the SIT FIR into the Karnataka Bitcoin scam are Poojar, inspectors Prashanth Babu, Chandradhar S R and Lakshmikanthaiah and private cyber expert K S Santhosh Kumar who assisted the probe in 2020.