Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition, seeking a direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to disqualify JDS state President HD Kumaraswamy from membership of Parliament for allegedly committing bigamy. The division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen dismissed the petition filed by city-based advocate Sashidhar Belagumba on the grounds of lack of proof. Belagumba had filed the petition in the High Court in 2011,...
04:53 PM, Apr 09, 2012
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11:41 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Thursday denied he was approached by middlemen over defence deals, the claim which was earlier made by his son HD Kumaraswamy. Speaking at a Press Conference in Bangalore, Gowda said, "I do not want to react more than what has been written by former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian in his book. There is no need for me to give any explanation, this...
06:18 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: Janata Dal Secular leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has claimed that his father HD Deve Gowda was offered bribes when he was the Prime Minister. "When my father HD Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister, middlemen used to approach him and try to bribe him to procure defence deals," Kumaraswamy claimed. Reacting to Kumaraswamy's claim, BJP leader Balbir Punj said, "It reconfirms the fact that bribes...
03:48 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: In a jolt to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister during 1999-2004. Also facing embarrassment is former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular president HD Deve Gowda as the court gave the nod to a probe into the role...
12:40 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) special court on Monday ordered an inquiry into the allegedly illegal freeing of government land on the city's outskirts by former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy in 2007. Admitting the private complaint filed by Madhuswamy, trial court judge NK Sudhindra Rao directed the ombudsman's police to investigate the alleged illegalities under section 156/3 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and submit a report by February 6....
04:03 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Bangalore: Claiming that some sections in the ruling BJP were trying to destablise the Sadanada Gowda Government, JD-S Karnataka unit President HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday demanded dissolution of the Assembly and holding fresh elections. "BJP is on shaky terrain as some sections of the BJP were making all efforts to destabilise the government. It is better to face fresh elections," he told reporters. Differences have cropped up in the BJP...
08:34 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Bangalore: After External Affairs Minister SM Krishna approached the Karnataka High Court to quash the FIR against him in alleged mining scam, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy filed a petition on Monday seeking quashing of FIR against him, which accused him of illegally approving the mining licence of Sai Venkateshwara Minerals and renewing the licence of Janthakal Enterprises. In his petition, Kumarswamy challenged the case filed in the Lokayukta Special...
10:52 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Bangalore: An FIR has been registered against External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Congress MP Dharam Singh and Janata Dal (Secular) MP HD Kumaraswamy in the illegal mining case. The FIR has been filed in relation to private complaint filed against them by one TJ Abraham in the Karnataka Lokayukta court. Krishna later issued a statement saying, "There is no indictment of me anywhere in the Lokayukta report. The fact that...
04:56 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Bangalore: In a major relief for former Karnataka chief minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy, his wife Anita and some of his family members, the High Court on Friday quashed the cases filed against the duo in connection with alleged irregularities in granting mining license and irregularities in land allotment. The one-judge bench of Justice V Jagannathan ruled that the private complaint filed against Kumaraswamy in the Lokayukta...
03:00 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: A special Lokayukta court rejected the bail application of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday. However, Yeddyurappa's son and son-in-laws were granted bail in the case. Lokayukta Deputy SP has reached Yedyurappa's residence with arrest warrants. The Karnataka BJP issued a statement on Saturday saying that Yeddyurappa will move higher court against the Lokayukta court warrant. Lokayukta Court has asked police to produce Yeddyurappa before the...
12:13 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Kudala Sangama, (Karnataka): Attacking the BJP on illegal mining issue, Leader of the Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on Monday said it was the turn of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to go to jail after mining baron and former minister G Janardhana Reddy. Delivering the valedictory address of the month-long 'Congress walk to the people' to highlight the "ill-deeds" of BJP rule, Siddaramaiah said that those involved in illegal...
12:20 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and his MLA wife Anita, who apprehended arrest in two corruption cases filed against them in the Special Lokayukta Court in Bangalore. "Both petitions allowed", Justice L Narayana Swamy said, pronouncing the order providing legal relief to the JD(S) leader against whom the Lokayukta Court had issued summons. The two were granted exemption from...
02:56 PM, Sep 08, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to grant stay on the proceedings initiated against former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and his wife by a lower court on a private complaint filed against them. Justice KN Keshavanarayan rejected the applications filed by Kumaraswamy and his wife Anita praying for staying the proceedings before the Lokayukta Special Court initiated on a private complaint. The Lokayukta court on August 8 issued summons...
03:28 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned to August 30 the applications filed by state unit JDS president HD Kumaraswamy and his wife seeking stay on the Lokayukta court proceedings in which he has been summoned for Tuesday. The application filed by Kumaraswamy's counsel Azmath Pasha came up for hearing before single judge, Justice KN Keshava Narayana and was adjourned to Tuesday for further hearing. On August 8, the Lokayukta...
07:19 AM, Aug 30, 2011
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