From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Aug 18: The hearing on the applications seeking anticipatory bail by dethroned former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa were postponed till August 22 by the Karnataka High Court on Thursday.

The ousted chief minister, who was forced to quit after being indicted by the recently retired Lokayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde in his final report submitted to the State Government on illegal mining, had moved the state High court following issuance of summons by the Lokayukta special court on August 8 in a case on a private complaint alleging irregularities in denotification of land acquired by the Bangalore Development Authority.

Yeddyurappa had also approached the high court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with another case on a complaint lodged against by the State JD(S) general secretary and spokesman Y S V Datta, who is also the party MLC, on the alleged financial irregularities in the award of tenders for the Upper Bhadra irrigation project to a private firm.

Justice L Narayana Swamy, who heard arguments on both complaints, granted time till August 22 to the Lokayukta police probing the case, to file its objections and adjourned hearing of both applications.

It may be recalled that the State Governor H R Bhardwaj had accorded sanction to the Lokayukta police to initiate criminal proceedings against the former chief minister as there was no need for him to refer the issue to the State Cabinet following Yeddyurappa’s demitting office.

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.

The second case on the complaint by the JD(S) MLC, the Lokayukta police have already filed an FIR in the special court.