Yeddyurappa moves High Court seeking bail

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who has been remanded to judicial custody till October 22 by a Lokayukta Special Court in alleged land scam cases, moved the High Court today seeking for bail. A memo to its effect was filed by the senior counsel Jayakumar S Patil before Justice B V Pinto praying for posting it tomorrow. The 68 year old Yeddyurappa is undergoing treatment in the ICU of a city hospital.

Yeddyurappa surrendered before the Lokayukta court on Saturday after it rejected his bail application. He was later on taken to Parappana Agrahara central prison.

The BJP leader on Sunday afternoon, largely credited with installing the first party government in South India in 2008, complained of discomfort  in the chest, and was shifted to the state-run Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research.

Yeddyurappa, who is under the observation in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, has undergone several tests like blood tests, ECG and echo. He is a chronic diabetic and hypertension patient, he underwent stress nuclear scan one and a half months ago.

The Lokayukta Court issued arrest warrant against Yeddyurappa in the corruption case pertaining to denotification of lands in multi-crore land scam in which he is the prime accused.

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Yeddyurappa unwell, shifts to hospital from jail

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who had been sent to judicial custody on Saturday, has been shifted to a hospital from jail in the early hours of Sunday after he complained of chest pain. Doctors said that Yeddyurappa, aged 68 years, is undergoing treatment in the ICU of Jayadeva Hospital.

The sources said that he had high blood pressure and vomited a couple of times, which prompted the jail authorities to take him into the hospital, adding his condition is stated to be stable.

The Special Lokayukta Court on Saturday rejected the bail and issued an arrest warrant against Yeddyurappa who has been facing allegations of denotifying government land violating rules when he was the Chief Minister.

Facing the imminent arrest, B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday was surrendered before a Lokayukta Court on Bangalore and was sent to jail for a week after he was issued an arrest warrant in connection with the alleged land scams.

Yeddyurappa is the first former chief minister of Karnataka to go to jail and this has come as a great embarassment to BJP whose leader L K Advani is on a country wide campaign against corruption.

Acting on a complaint by two lawyers against Yeddyurappa for alleged irregularities in the denotification of land during his tenure as the chief minister, special Lokayukta Judges N K Sudhindra Rao rejected his bail application.

The former chief minister has failed to appear before the court while his sons B Y Raghavendra, MP, and B Y Vijendra and also his son-in-law Sohan Kumar also appeared in the court and got bail.

The judge remanded Yeddyurappa to judicial custody till October 22. His lawyer M B Naik had earlier said that they would challenge the Lokayukta court order in the High Court.

Another accused, former minister S N Krishnaiah Setty, was also remanded to judicial custody till October 22 by Judge who also granted bail BJP MLA Hemachandra Sagar and 10 others in the case.

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Karnataka High Court reserves order on Yeddyurappa bail plea

The Karnataka High Court on Friday reversed its order on the anticipatory bail application of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who is asked to appear before the Lokayukta on Saturday to face the allegations of denotification of government land for personal gain.

Justice L Narayana Swamy after hearing the counsel, reserved his order on the bail application of B S Yeddyurappa to August 29.

The Special Lokayukta Court on August 8 had ordered to issue the summons to Yeddyurappa to appear before it on August 27, on a private complaint filed by the lawyer Sirajin Basha.

Earlier, Yeddyurappa's counsel and famous Supreme Court lawyer U U Lalit had submitted that the denotification was a collective decision involving many departments, including the Bangalore Development Authority and not an individual decision taken by Yeddyurappa.

Lalit cited a Supreme Court Judgement in he Gurbaksh Singh case and submitted that today political battles are fought in criminal courts and also argued that merely taking a decision is not illegal and also stated that liberty of an individual should not get prejudiced.

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High Court adjourns Yeddyurappa's petition to August 25

Karnataka High Court today adjourned to August 25 hearing of the petition filed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa praying for quashing a portion of the Lokayukta report on illegal mining which had indicted him.

A division bench comprising of Justices K L Manjunath and ustice H S Kempanna, adjourned the hearing after the counsel for Yeddyurappa Sandeep Patil sought time till Thursday.

The famous advocate Ram Jethmalani will be appearing for Yeddyurappa.

Yeddyurappa has moved the High Court seeking to quash Chapter 22 of the Lokayukta report on the ground that recommendations were beyond the scope of terms of reference set by the state for probe into illegal mining.

The chapter related to financial transactions between a mining company and a trust owned and managed by Yeddyurappa's family members in Shimoga.

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B S Yeddyurappa files anticipatory bail applications

Former Karnataka Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, apprehending his arrest, today filed applications in the High Court seeking bail in two cases pertaining to alleged irregularities in land denotification and an irrigation scheme.  

He moved his bail plea on a private complaint filed against him before the Lokayukta court, alleging irregularities in denotification of land acquired by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA).

The Lokayukta court had issued summons against him on August 8, seeking his appearance before the court on August 27 in the case filed by advocate Sirajin Basha.

Yeddyurappa also moved another application in the court praying for bail in case in which the Lokayukta court has referred t the Lokayukta police for investigating a complaint filed by JDS leader Y S V  Datta, alleging financial irregularities in award of tender on Upper Bhadra Project to a private firm.

Meanwhile, Lokayukta police today served summons issued by a Specail Court on Yeddyurappa, seeking his appearance before it on August 27 in connection with a complaint filed against him over alleged irregularities in denotification of land.

The Lokayukta police official said that the summons was served on Yeddyurappa in person.

A Lokayukta Special Court on August 8 had ordered issue of summons on Yeddyurappa, who was forced to quit as Chief Minister following his indictment in a Lokayukta report on illegal mining, and 14 others.

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Lokayukta to act on Governor's sanction against Yeddyurappa

The Karnataka Lokayukta would soon act on governor's sanction to prosecute former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in the multi-crore mining scam under the Prevention of Corruption Act, the retired Ombudsman Judge V. Shivaraj Patil said.

Patil told the reporters that they will soon act upon the sanction of the governor granted to prosecute Yeddyurappa as recommended in the final investigation report on illegal mining scam.

As the Governor is the competent authority to take action against a Chief Minister under the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1994. Bhardwaj recommended the ombudsman to initiate proceedings against Yeddyurappa on the basis of the probe report, which Hedge submitted to the Government on July 27.

Patil observed that the probe report runs into over 25,000 pages with annexures and recommendations. And he said that it's a huge task and he and his officers are studying this probe from all the directions and to respond appropriately soon.

Patil stated that the petition is before the Chief Justice of High Court, Justice K. S. Kehar and said that it is waiting for the outcome before acting on Yeddyurappa's review petition.

On the jailing of former BJP Minister Katta Subramaniya Naidu in a land scam, Patil said the law would take its course and trial against Naidu was going in accordance with the sanction granted by the Governor under the State Lokayukta Act and Prevention of Corruption Act.

Naidu and his son Jagdish Naidu, a corporate in the local body were jailed on Monday after the bail pleas were rejected by a local court on illegal land deal case in which they were accused of taking Rs.87 crore from a software firm.

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Yeddyurappa challenges Lokayukta report in Karnataka High Court

Seeking reconsideration of Lokayukta Justice (retired) N. Santosh Hedge's report on illegal mining, the former Chief Minister B.S. Yuddyurappa filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday.

Hegde's independent inquiry into mining graft in Karnataka, the accused Yeddyurappa and other key officials for causing a loss of atleast 160 billion rupees to the state exchequer between 2006 and 2010 from illegal mining and litany of abuses.

It was stated by B.J. Puttaswamy, Yeddyurappa's political secretary, in the Bangalore city that petition has sought reconsideration of the Ombudsman's recommendation for prosecuting Yeddyurappa under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and also highlighted the errors into the report.

It was said by Puttaswamy that, Our Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has submitted a memorandum to the honorable Lokayukta to review and reconsider the recommendations of this report which has harmed the personal integrity of the Government.

Also, in the report it was clearly stated about the donation of Rs.10 crores by a company dealing in iron ore to Prerana Education Society Trust, which is managed by the family members of Yeddyurappa.

According to Puttaswami the findings were incorrect and must be again looked into.

He said that in the report the Lokayukta mentioned that they have received a donation of South west mines and even though it is not benefited officially by B.S. Yeddyurappa, he may give some favour to these mines. He also said that so far the south west mines is not having a mining license and hence the favourism cannot be done.

400 firms and 787 people had been implicated in a web of corruption involving mining, transport, customs and shipping officials, along with Yeddyurappa leadin to hundreads of thousands of tonnes of iron ore going missing from mines across the state.

Including the State Tourism Minister Janardhana Reddy, several senior officials with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were also named in the report.

On Sunday Yeddyurapa formally stepped down and tendered his resignation to Bhardwaj, bowing down to the diktat of Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).       

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