<span style="color: #222222;">The Kerala High Court today stayed the order of the Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court, which dropped culpable homicide charges against IAS officer Sreeram Venkitaraman, in a case related to rash driving that caused the death of journalist KM Basheer in 2019. The State government filed an appeal in the High Court against the order of the Additional Sessions Court, which dismissed the culpable homicide charges against the IAS officer.<br />''<br />''The government in its appeal said Sriram Venkitaraman, a qualified doctor, was in an inebriated state when the accident took place in Thiruvananthapuram. He purposefully delayed the collection of his blood sample in an attempt to dilute alcohol content and destroy evidence, which the lower court failed to consider.</span><br />