Hearing of complaints against BSY adjourned

A Lokayukta Court on Wednesday adjourned to September 13 hearing of private complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and his family.

Lokayukta Special Court Judge N K Sundhindra Rao adjourned hearing of the pleas filed by advocate Sirajin Basha, granting time to the counsel for the accused to argue on the issue of right of representation by counsel for the complainant, who submitted a vakalat (power of attorney) that he wished to be prosecutor for the complainant. Earlier, senior counsel C H Hanumantharaya had filed the vakalat. Objecting to the vakalat, senior counsel for Yeddyurappa, C V Nagesh and Ravi B Naik, submitted that if the counsel for the complainant has filed a vakalat to appear as prosecutor for the case, he has “to justify it and explain it”. Nagesh said Pramod Chandra who has been appointed as Special Public Prosectuor for Lokayukta, which is probing the case, should also be present.

Ravi Naik submitted that since it was a “technical matter”, Yeddyurappa, who was present on Wednesday and also at the last hearing on August 29, be exempt from personal appearance.

As it was not only “causing inconvenience to public because of security reasons but was also disrupting judicial proceedings because of the huge crowd that had gathered outside the court hall”.