Bangalore: The Lokayukta court on Thursday adjourned to Friday further arguments in the bail application filed by former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in one of the complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by him.
Special court judge NK Sudhindra Rao adjourned the hearing of the application filed by Yeddyurappa in the private complaint in which nine others including his sons, BY Raghavendra, BY Vijayendra, son-in-law Sohan Kumar, former Housing Minister, Krishnaiah Setty and sitting MLA, Hemachandra Sagar, are the accused.
When the court commenced proceedings, the judge took serious objection to senior counsels Ravi B Naik and CV Nagesh not being present.
Justice Rao then asked senior counsel for the complainant, CH Hanumantharaya to proceed but he also expressed his inability saying he did not wish to argue in piecemeal and would argue after the other side has concluded their arguments.
However, the judge observed, "What is of paramount importance is to keep the court engaged" and directed Tomy Sebastian, counsel for the sixth accused (BJP leader Krishnaiah Setty) to commence arguments.
Sebastian refuted the allegation against Setty that a firm owned by him had paid a bribe of Rs 5.5 crore to two firms owned by Sohan Kumar and one of Yeddurappa's sons respectively.
Setty's firm is alleged to have paid the bribe in return for a government order denotifying 387 acres of land in three villages in Anekal taluk, which benefited a housing cooperative society for which Setty had the contract for execution of the residential layout.
Sebastian submitted that the government order was a "general order for all societies who have procured land and not a specific order".
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