B D Narayankar
Press Trust of India
Bangalore, Nov 3: Karnataka High Court today granted
conditional bail to former Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in a
corruption case relating to alleged irregularities in
denotifying lands.
Justice B V Pinto allowed the bail plea of Yeddyurappa and
directed him to furnish a surety for Rs five lakh and not to
tamper with evidence.
Yeddyurappa is in judicial custody for the last 20 days
which was granted by a Lokayukta court before which the case
is pending.
The Lokayukta court had earlier dismissed the bail
application of Yeddyurappa, against whom it had issued summons
in two private complaints regarding alleged irregularities in
denotification of government land for pecuniary gains.
Facing the arrest warrant, Yeddyurappa had however
surrended before the Lokyukta court, where advocate Sirajin
Basha had filed the complaints.
Yeddyurappa, his two sons-- B Y Raghavendra, a Lok Sabha
memebr and B Y Vijendra and son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar have
also moved applications seeking anticipatory bail in three
other private complaints in which they have been named as
accused by Basha.
Their pleas are being heard by Justice Billiappa today.
In another development, Lokayukta Special Court today
extended the judicial custody of Yeddyurappa and former
minister S N Krishnaiah Setty till November 15. Judge N K
Sudhindra Rao extended the judicial custody of both, as it
ended today.
While Setty was produced before the court, jail
authorities had not produced Yeddyurappa, at which the judge
took objection.
The court issued a notice to the Superintendent of the
Bangalore central prison seeking explanation for the reasons
for not producing Yeddyrappa before the court and declined to
accept the plea that lack of police personnel as the reason.
All the other accused in the fourth private complaint
were present before the court and in the third complaint four
accused filed application seeking exemption from personal
appearance.
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