BANGALORE: The Central Prison authority filed an affidavit in the High Court on Friday stating it is not responsible for the gush of visitors at Jayadeva Hospital in Bangalore, when former CM B S Yeddyurappa was admitted there recently.K N A Reddy, retired Superintendent of Police from Shimoga, filed a PIL against the prison authority and Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda claiming that authorities had not followed the Jail Manual (1978), when Yeddyurappa was admitted at the hospital for treatment; nearly 500 people visited him in a single day.The prison authority submitted that the hospital comes under the jurisdiction of the city armed reserve police, while adding that they are not considered to monitor visitors, neither were they asked to do so.BSY’S CASE GETS POSTED TO NOVEMBER 21BANGALORE: The Lokayukta Special Court has posted the hearing of private cases filed against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa regarding the illegal denotification of government land done in his tenure to November 21.The court took up the hearing of the fourth and fifth cases filed against him on Friday. But the complainant Sirajin Basha and his senior counsel were not present during the hearing.Thus an advocate on behalf of them requested the judge, N K Sudheendra Rao, to postpone the hearing. The judge approved the request and ordered the postponement.
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