Bengaluru: A Bengaluru Court yesterday framed charges against actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, his friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 other accused in the Renukaswamy murder case. Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge (CCH-57) framed the charges in the presence of Darshan, Pavithra and other accused following which all the accused denied the charges against them.

Seeing the crowd burgeoning inside the Courtroom, the Judge instructed everyone not connected to the case to leave.

After clearing the crowd, the charge-framing process began and the charges against the accused were read out. As all the accused denied the charges on them, Court posted the hearing of witnesses to Nov. 10.