Bangalore, April 06: The Karnataka High Court today extended its interim stay till April 7 on a lower court order on a private complaint filed against Home Minister R Ashoka.
Single Judge Justice K N Keshavanarayan extended the interim stay to April 7, on a criminal petition filed by Ashoka contending that the lower court order directing the Lokyukta police to probe into allegations of denotification of government land against him was “in violation of rules”.
Ashoka in his petition had contested the lower court action of taking cognisance of the offence stating that Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj had not accorded sanction to prosecute him.
The private complaint was filed by an RTI activist M Manjunath who had submitted that Ashoka “illegally denotified” 23 guntas (a gunta is 1/40th of an acre) of land in Lottegollahalli, which was earlier acquired by Bangalore Development Authority for formation of Raj Mahal Vilas Layout and registered it in his favour.
——–PTI