The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea of mining baron and BJP leader G Janardhana Reddy seeking permission to enter Bellary district in Karnataka for electioneering.
A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan junked his plea to enter the district to campaign for his brother, G Somashekar Reddy, who is a BJP candidate in the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka.
In 2009, Janardhana Reddy was sent to jail for being involved in illegal mining of iron ore in Bellary and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.
He was granted bail by the apex court in January 2015.
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