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Yeddyurappa gets bail, three weeks after
arrest
Tuesday November 08, 2011 07:15:40 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Former
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, arrested in two
corruption cases, is likely to walk out of jail later Tuesday
after the court granted him bail.
The high court granted him bail in one case Tuesday, while he got
bail in the other one Nov 3.
Justice B.V. Pinto of the high court granted bail on condition
that Yeddyurappa furnish a bond for Rs.500,000, two sureties for
the same amount each, refrain from tampering with evidence and
participate in trial court proceedings against him in the two
cases.
The arrested Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader will be out of
Bangalore's central prison in the eastern suburb of Parappana
Agrahara later Tuesday if he fulfils the bond conditions.
His lawyers told reporters at the high court premises that they
have asked for a copy of the bail order as that and the bonds will
have to be given to the trial court.
Yeddyurappa, the first BJP chief minister in south India, was sent
to jail Oct 15 by the special Lokayukta (ombudsman) court judge
N.K. Sudhindra Rao after rejecting his bail plea.
Yeddyurappa spent only a few hours in jail on Oct 15. He was
shifted to a hospital after he complained of chest pain. He spent
three days in two hospitals and went back to jail Oct 19 after
media and opposition parties slammed what was seen as an attempt
to avoid jail stay.
He is facing three more corruption and illegal land deals cases
and has sought anticipatory bail in them.
The five cases were filed in January this year by two Bangalore
advocates Sirajin Bhasha and N.K. Balaraj after Governor H.R.
Bhardwaj granted them permission to launch criminal proceedings
against Yeddyurappa.
He, his two sons, son-in-law, former minister S.N. Krishnaiah
Shetty, BJP law maker Hemachandra Sagar and several others are
accused of conspiring to free from official control government
land, a process called denotification, around Bangalore in return
for monetary gain.
The denotification helps in many ways as the government pays low
amount to acquire land.
People who get back their land can sell it at market price and pay
part of it to people who helped the denotification as
quid-pro-quo.
If politicians are interested in that piece of land, they use
their clout to get it denotified and acquire it at low price
brow-beating the original owners. They retain it for personal use
or make money by selling it at market price.
Shetty, who was arrested along with Yeddyurappa on Oct 15, was
also granted bail. He is an accused in one of the two cases for
which Yeddyurappa was arrested.
All others accused in the five cases have got bail and were not
arrested.
One son of Yeddyurappa, B.Y. Raghavendra, is BJP Lok Sabha member
from Shimoga, about 280 km from here.
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