Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court on Saturday recorded the statement of complainant Vinod B, who had filed a case against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his son BY Raghavendra, accusing them of accumulating wealth and possessing properties disproportionate to their income.
The Lokayukta Court took cognizance of the complaint in May under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13(1)(c) and 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
On May 21, 2012, a complaint had been filed by Shimoga-based advocate Vinod B alleging that properties had been obtained in the name of Yeddyurappa's relatives and associates. The complaint also named K Somashekar, Adilakshmamma, Umadevi, K Radhamani and HV Manjunath as the accused.
It has been alleged that Yeddyurappa and his son had been operating land conversion deals and utilising them for benami transactions. He and his son abused their powers to get the conversion done in a short time, the complaint stated....
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12:55 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta court on Thursday ordered issue of summons to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, former minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar and four others in cases relating to alleged illegal denotification of land and illegalities in housing cooperative societies. Judge NK Sudhindra Rao ordered issue of summons on similar complaints filed by social activist TJ Abraham and another person and adjourned the matter to August 2. The four...
08:07 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Bangalore: Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi on June 4 moved to the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and also to review the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing on June 5 before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao on June 2 has convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta Special court on Saturday convicted BJP MLA from Kolar Gold Fields Y Sampangi in a bribery case. Sampangi was sentenced to three and half years in jail and a fine of Rs 40,000 has been imposed on him. Sampangi was reportedly caught by the Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a businessman. This is the first ever conviction of a legislator in...
01:47 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Bangalore: A Lokayukta court in Bangalore is expected to pronounce orders in a private complaint filed against former Advocate General BV Acharya on Saturday. He has been accused of misappropriation of funds in an education trust. The complaint alleges that the value of the assets of the trust is over Rs 10,000 crore. The petition also charged that the accused had entered into a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently misappropriate huge...
06:29 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Bangalore: The special Lokayukta court in Bangalore on Friday issued summons to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and his aide V Somanna in connection with land denotification case. The court has asked Yeddyurappa and his aide to appear before it on April 30. Ordering issue of summons, judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed Yeddyurappa, Somanna, his wife and a person named Lingaraju to appear without fail on the...
07:27 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta court has issued another arrest warrant against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa after he failed to appear for a hearing in a land denotification case. Yeddyurappa had been summoned to appear before the court on Monday but he did not do so as his lawyer had joined in the boycott of court proceedings. Yeddyurappa had sent in a memo through a messenger seeking exemption from appearing...
03:43 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta Court on Thursday issued summons to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, his family members and others in an illegal land denotification case. The summons, directing the accused to be present in the court on March 16, were issued by Special Lokayukta Court Justice NK Sudhindra Rao. Summons were issued to Yeddyurappa, his two sons, BY Raghavendra and BY Vijayendra, son-in-law Sohan Kumar and three others. Two...
06:41 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: In Karnataka, the Lokayukta Court hearing cases against former state Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is expected to pass an order on Thursday. Yeddyurappa has been charged with irregularities in the de-notification of land during his tenure as the Chief Minister. In a setback for Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday refused to interfere in the criminal proceedings against him. However, the Lokayukta Police gave him a clean...
09:06 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court in Bangalore on Tuesday granted time till January 30 to the Lokayukta police to file its final report on its probe into a private complaint filed against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa alleging irregularities in award of Bhadra irrigation project. Judge NK Sudhindra Rao asked the police to file their report on January 30 and adjourned the matter. Police informed the court that it has completed...
07:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: A special Lokayukta court in Bangalore will hear External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's petition on Thursday in an illegal mining case. Earlier, Krishna on December 9 petitioned the Karnataka High Court to quash the illegal mining case against him, a day after police launched a probe into his alleged role in illegal mining when he was chief minister during the period of 1999-2004. Krishna has contended in the...
07:30 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Bangalore: In fresh trouble for former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, another complaint was on Thursday filed against him and Housing Minister V Somanna in the Lokayukta court in an alleged land scam. The complaint pertains to alleged acquisition of 22 guntas (a gunta is 1/40th of an acre) of government land in Nagadevanahalli by Somanna in his wife's name in 2005 and getting it denotified in 2009 when Yeddyurappa...
03:00 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa will spend Diwali in jail after he withdrew his interim bail plea on Monday. Yeddyurappa's advocate Jayakumar Patil had on Friday filed an application seeking bail for three days so that he could spend Diwali with his family at home. With the withdrawal of the interim bail plea, regular bail hearings for Yeddyurappa will start. The Lokayukta court, hearing the case against Yeddyurappa,...
01:45 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Bangalore: Lokayukta Court on Thursday directed Lokayukta SP to register a case under section 156 (3) of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) against Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok, accused of being involved in illegal denotification of government land. CrPC 156 (3) says any magistrate empowered under section 190 (cognizance of offences by Magistrates) may order an investigation. Lokayukta Special Court Judge N K Sudhindra Rao also directed Lokayukta SP to investigate...
06:49 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Bangalore: The interim bail application of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has been deferred to October 20. Yeddyurappa, who is slated to get discharged from hospital on Tuesday, will now go to jail till the hearing of the plea takes places. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was remanded to judicial custody till October 22 by a Special Lokayukta Court in two alleged land scam cases. Yeddyurappa on...
11:10 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Supreme Court senior lawyer KN Bhatt senior lawyer SC said that former Karnataka chief minister was advised wrongly. ...
01:17 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Congress MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao said that Advani's anti-corruption yatra has lost its meaning after the Lokayukta court issued an arrest warrant against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. ...
01:11 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Bangalore: A Lokayukta court on Wednesday adjourned to September 13 hearing of private complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his family. Lokayukta Special Court Judge NK Sundhindra Rao adjourned hearing of the pleas filed by advocate Sirajin Basha, granting time to the counsel for the accused to argue on the issue of right of representation by counsel for the complainant, who...
06:58 PM, Sep 07, 2011
