Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed anticipatory bail plea of Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa while a Lokayukta court ordered filing a charge sheet against him in connection with alleged irregularities in land denotification. Close on the heels of the high court rejecting his application seeking bail, Yeddyurappa responded to the summons by Lokayukta special court and appeared before it. The special court directed Lokayukta police to file a charge sheet against him and others. While Justice L Narayana Swamy of the high court dismissed Yeddyurappa's bail application, a division bench comprising Justices K L Manjunath and H S Kempanna also dismissed as withdrawn another petition seeking quashing of Chapter 22 of the Lokayukta report on illegal mining, which had indicted him. The Lokayukta court had directed Yeddyurappa to appear before it today after granting him a day's exemption on August 27. After Yeddyurappa, his son B Y Raghavendra and others appeared before the Lokayukta court, judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed Lokayukta police to file a charge sheet against the accused in the private complaints filed by advocate Sirajin Basha and adjourned the hearing to September 7.
News On AIR | August 29, 2011 5:28 PM
Karnataka HC dismiss anticipatory bail plea of Yeddyurappa