Bengaluru: The High Court on Tuesday disposed of a petition reserving liberty to the petitioner to file a complaint before the jurisdictional magistrate at Chikkaballapur against former union law minister and local MP M Veerappa Moily in connection with a false affidavit case.

V Shashidhar, an RTI activist and president of Akhila Karnataka Police Maha Sangha, approached the high court seeking a direction to the Election Commission for an enquiry against Moily.

The petitioner, a voter from Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha constituency represented by Veerappa Moily, said that in the nomination papers filed for the 2014 elections, the MP did not disclose the pendency of a case registered by the Delhi government against Reliance Petro Companies and Moily, who was then Union Minister for Petroleum.