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Yeddyurappa fails to get bail, faces arrest
Saturday October 15, 2011 03:21:51 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The
Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) first chief minister in south
India, B.S. Yeddyurappa, who quit in July over graft charges,
Saturday faced jail as a trial court rejected his bail plea and
issued a warrant to arrest him.
Yeddyurappa was not present in the Lokayukta special court when
judge N.K. Sudhindra Rao pronounced his verdict. He sent a medical
certificate saying he was suffering from back pain and sought
exemption from personal appearance.
However, the former Karnataka chief minister's two sons -- BJP Lok
Sabha member B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijayendra -- and
son-in-law R. Sohan Kumar were granted conditional bail. The three
were also accused in the cases.
Rao rejected the bail plea of S.N. Krishnaiah Shetty, who was
minister in the Yeddyurappa cabinet, and directed his arrest.
Yeddyurappa is the first accused in two cases of illegal land
denotification for monetary gains.
The cases were filed by two Bangalore advocates Sirajin Bhasha and
N.K. Balaraj in January this year after Governor H.R. Bhardwaj
gave them sanction to launch criminal proceedings against
Yeddyurappa and his kin for conspiring to denotify lands in and
around Bangalore in return for monetary gains.
Yeddyurappa quit July 31 after the then Lokayukta (ombudsman) N.
Santosh Hegde recommended his trial for graft in illegal land
mining scam.
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