Bangalore, October 28: The Karnataka High Court on Friday will hear the bail plea of beleaguered former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, arrested for alleged corruption cases.
Yeddyurappa applied for bail on Oct 17, two days after he was arrested and sent to judicial custody by the Special Lokayukta (ombudsman) Court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao in two of the five corruption and illegal land deal cases against him.
Justice BV Pinto of the high court will resume hearing the arguments for and against bail for Yeddyurappa.
Yeddyurappa was arrested Oct 15 evening and taken to the jail in Parappana Agrahara, a suburb in east Bangalore.
However, he stayed there for only a few hours and was shifted to the government-run Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research early Sunday after he complained of chest pain.
From there, Yeddyurappa was moved to Victoria Hospital, also government-run, on the ground that he was suffering from high blood pressure and other ailments.
He went back to jail Wednesday morning.
He is seeking bail from the high court in two of five cases of corruption and illegal land deals filed by two Bangalore advocates in January this year.
The advocates, Sirajin Bhasha and NK Balaraj, have charged Yeddyurappa, his two sons — BJP Lok Sabha member BY Raghavendra and BY Vijayendra — and son-in-law R Sohan Kumar of conspiracy to free government land from official control, a process called denotification, in return for monetary gains.
The freed land is usually bought by influential people for a much lower price than market rate.
If the owners themselves are people with clout they can sell it at market rate as government pays much less than the market rate when it acquires these lands.
—–IANS—