Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday
adjourned till August 22 hearing of the anticipatory bail
applications filed by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in
two cases.
The first case related to a private complaint alleging
irregularities in denotification of land acquired by the
Bangalore Development Authority, in which Yeddyurappa had been
issued summons by the Lokayukta court on August 8.
The other case was on a complaint charging him with
financial irregularities in award of tenders on Upper Bhadra
project to a private firm.
In the first case, senior counsel for the petitioner
(Yeddyurappa) sought to make Sirajin Basha, the city-based
advocate who had filed the complaint against him, a party and
filed a memo to this effect.
In the second complaint filed by JDS spokesperson Y S V
Dutta in which an FIR has already been filed, Justice L
Narayana Swamy granted time till August 22 to Lokayukta police
probing the case, to file its objections and adjourned hearing
of both applications.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011, 18:19