Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court on Wednesday said it would pass orders on October 3 on the bail applications filed by former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in two complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by him.
Lokayukta Special Court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao asked the counsels of both sides to conclude arguments by September 24. Objecting to the bail, senior counsel for the complainant CH Hanumantharaya said Yeddyurappa was the "defacto CM even today" and there was a greater danger of elimination of evidence by the accused.
Hanumantharaya submitted that in case the court decides to grant bail, most stringent conditions should be imposed on Yeddyurappa, the main accused, and his passport should be sezied to prevent from leaving the country.
Senior counsel for Yeddyurappa, Ravi B Naik submitted "first corruption has to be found out. Denotification on humanitarian grounds is no corruption at all".
"The accused has obeyed the directions of the Supreme Court and the High Court as far as denotification of land is concerned", Naik argued.
When the Judge sought to know the "indirect benefit that has flown to Yeddyurappa", Hanumantharaya said "the crucial point is rapid movement of files which shows the access of go betweens (benamidars accused along with Yeddyurappa) to the documents" and subsequent denotifcation.
Meanwhile, the Special Public Prosecutor Lokayukta Pramod Chandra who is now the amicus curie in the case clarified that the Lokayukta police did not register the complaint then "as it was not a regular trap case. Besides since the complaints contained many instances of alleged misconduct stretching to a different periods, it had to be treated as a scam which entailed investigation after the preliminary enquiry".
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