Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister B
S Yeddyurappa will continue to remain in jail as the state
High Court on Friday adjourned to November 8 further hearing on
his second bail application in a graft case.
Justice B V Pinto, who yesterday granted conditional bail
to Yeddyurappa in another corruption case, said he needed time
to study it and wanted some more clarification.
With this, hopes of walking free today have eluded
68-year-old Yeddyurappa who is in judicial custody for the
past 21 days.
"I am still studying the case. The study is in progress
and not yet completed. I need further clarifications", Justice
Pinto observed.
Justice Pinto had yesterday allowed the bail plea by
Yeddyurappa in one of the two complaints in which he has
landed in jail and reserved order for today on the other.
Even as Yeddyurappa got relief on a complaint in which he
has been accused of denotifying government land for personal
gains, the order on another complaint was awaited on Friday.
Yeddyurappa, who has been accused of illegally
denotifying land, is facing trouble for his alleged
involvement in the scam that saw his family members getting
prime land at throwaway prices during his Chief Ministership.
Yeddyurappa and his family members have filed
anticipatory bail applications in three other cases on which
the hearing was adjourned to November 8 by the High Court
yesterday.
Besides Yeddyurappa, his two sons, B Y Raghavendra, a Lok
Sabha member and B Y Vijendra and son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar
who are among the other accused, have sought anticipatory
bail, fearing arrest in the complaints, filed by Advocate
Sirajin Basha, proceedings of which are on before the
Lokayukta Court.
PTI
