Ranjith had earlier been booked for unnatural offences on a complaint by an aspiring male actor accusing the Malayalam filmmaker of sexual assault in 2012 at the Taj Hotel near Bengaluru Airport.
Justice M Nagaprasanna passed the interim order on an application filed by the CBI, as part of a petition filed by four BJP leaders for a court-monitored CBI probe.
The Court lamented that a festival traditionally celebrated together by Hindus and Muslims had sadly become a source of conflict, particularly between upper-caste Hindus and Dalits.