Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav received a jolt on Tuesday when Governor Ram Naik finally rejected his recommendation for the appointment of the state's Lokayukta.
The post of Karnataka Lokayukta had been lying vacant since September 2011, after Shivaraj V Patil resigned from the post in the wake of a media expose that showed irregularities in the allotment of two residential plots to him and his wife.
A viral video showed the Lokayukta sleuths intercepting the MLA at the Kyathasandra toll gate in Tumakuru when was heading for Bengaluru.
The defamation suit was filed by Indian Police Service officer, Hemanth Nimbalkar, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
In an unprecedented move that will surely bring her on a collision course with the state government, Gujarat Governor Dr Kamla Beniwal, using her special powers, has appointed retired judge of Gujarat high court Justice RA Mehta as the Lokayukta of the state.The governor has bypassed the Narendra Modi-led state government while making the appointment. The state government has been sitting on the file regarding the appointment of a state Lokayukta.
Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N Hegde, who is probing illegal mining in the state, on Thursday claimed that his phone has been tapped. Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, told PTI that after reports of alleged bugging in the office of Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee surfaced, he had asked a professional to carry out a check in his office. "(The professional) told me that my telephone has been tapped. Every conversation was being recorded," he said.
In the continuing tug of war between Narendra Modi government and the governor, the state assembly on Tuesday passed the Gujarat Lokayukta Ayog Bill 2013 for a second time without incorporating any major changes sought by Raj Bhavan, setting the stage for a fresh confrontation.
Former Kerala high court chief justice S R Bannurmath has decided to quit the post of Lokayukta in Karnataka. Karnataka Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda said that the judge had sent a letter to him, requesting the state government not to pursue the matter with Governor H R Bharadwaj. Justice Bannurmath backed out after Bharadwaj rejected the government's recommendation to appoint him as Lokayukta, citing a land row among other reasons.
In a major embarrassment for the Uttar Pradesh government, the SC on Wednesday appointed retired judge Justice Virender Singh as the state's Lokayukta.
Unfazed by the high court verdict on the Gujarat Lokayukta appointment issue, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said though the case will now go to a three-judge bench, politically the governor's decision is untenable as she is bound to act as per the advice of the Council of Ministers.
The court also heard the bail pleas of 21 other accused in the case, which include Yeddyurappa's sons B Raghavendra and B Vijyendra. The court directed them not to leave the country and surrender their passports before the court.
In a relief to former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, the high court on Thursday stated that he cannot be arrested in connection with the illegal mining scam. Justice B V Pinto while hearing a petition filed by Kumaraswamy challenging proceedings against him in the mining case, however, stated that the investigation would continue.
The Karnataka high court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Y Sampangi on a criminal appeal filed by him seeking quashing of the recent conviction and sentence by the Lokayukta court.
Pulling up the Bharatiya Janata Party government for "inordinate delay" in appointing the lokayukta, Karnataka high court on Monday warned it would write to the governor that there is a Constitutional crisis if it failed to respond positively.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, his wife Datty and another accused Anil appeared before the Lokayukta court on Friday in a complaint filed against them alleging illegal construction on government lands and allotment of sites to them under discretionary quota despite them possessing land.
Justice Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani, a retired judge of the Bombay high court, was on Monday sworn in as the new Maharashtra Lokayukta.
Stepping up his offensive against Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that there is a "partnership" between the BJP PM candidate and Adani and accused the industrialist of "funding" the Modi marketing blitz to return "favours".
In a setback for former chief minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Tuesday rejected his petition challenging the proceedings against him in connection with two cases of denotification. Justice Anand Byra Reddy, who had reserved orders on the matter a couple of weeks ago, pronounced the order rejecting Yeddyurappa's petition.This verdict paves the way for the continuation of proceedings against Yeddyurappa in the Lokayukta court.
Gujarat Lokayukta Justice R A Mehta's resignation letter is a stinging indictment of the Narendra Modi government's obstructionist attitude towards a constitutional watchdog.
Justice Shivraj Patil, former Judge of the Supreme Court will replace Justice Santhosh Hegde as the next Lokayukta of Karnataka next month. Speaking for the first time after his name was cleared by the Karnataka administration for the post, Patil tells Vicky Nanjappa in this short interview, that he is up to the challenge.
While former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa may have to wait another day to find out if he would be let out on bail or not, his sons however got some relief from the high court which stayed two conditions imposed on them.
The Supreme Court on Friday admitted an appeal filed by the Gujarat government challenging the state governor's decision to "unilaterally" appoint Justice (retd) R A Mehta as the Lokayukta.
Bhikhabhai Jethwa, father of slain RTI activist Amit Jethwa, is filing a writ petition in the Gujarat high court on Thursday against the Narendra Modi government's failure to appoint a Lokayukta.
Jailed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday moved the Karnataka high court seeking anticipatory bail in three of the five cases against him relating to alleged irregularities in denotifying lands.
A petition seeking cancellation of bail granted to family members of former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, arrested in an alleged land scam case, was on Wednesday moved in the high court in Bengaluru.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued notices while adjourning hearing on the bail plea filed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
Expressing doubts over the state government implementing his report on the mining scam in Karnataka, state Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde on Saturday said his only hope was the Supreme Court.
The Karnataka high court on Monday granted bail to former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, who was arrested in connection with the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board land scam.
The Karnataka high court will hear on Tuesday the petition filed by Union External Affairs Minister S M Krishna challenging the proceedings against him in the illegal mining case. The matter is expected to be come up in the morning session and will be heard by Justice B V Pinto, the same judge who heard the bail plea filed by B S Yeddyurappa.
The legal team of former Chief Minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa on Monday will apply for bail before the Karnataka high court. A member of his legal team informed that the bail plea to be filed on Monday would also cite medical reasons, as he was admitted in hospital after he complained of chest pain.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued a fresh notice to Justice R A Mehta (retired) who was appointed as the Lokayukta by the governor bypassing the Narendra Modi government. The state government has challenged the governor's decision in the high court.
A special court in Bengaluru has ordered the registration of a 'special criminal case' against former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa regarding alleged corruption in a land denotification issue when he was the deputy CM in the Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal-Secular coalition government in 2006-07.
Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is set to spend the festival of Diwali in jail after the Karnataka high court on Monday adjourned his bail plea to October 28. The 68-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader had sought bail in two of the five corruption cases against him. The Special Lokayukta Court had remanded him to judicial custody -- first to October 22 and later till November 3.
A complaint was filed against former Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda and seven other government officials, including the chief secretary, before the Lokayukta court on Wednesday for alleged misuse of power to grab property.
The case to be probed against S M Krishna would involve the dereservation of 34 forest blocks that allegedly facilitated illegal mining. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The mining scam in Karnataka brought down BS Yeddyurappa from the chief minister's seat. Now it threatens to expose the state's 3 former chief minister S M Krishna, H D Kumaraswamy and N Dharam Singh. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The denotification bug has come to hit the Karnataka government yet again. Two more cases have surfaced and this time Home Minister R Ashok is under the scanner.
A third judge of the Gujarat high court on Wednesday began hearing the dispute over appointment of Lokayukta of the state, following the split verdict where two judges had differed on the matter.
In the wake of a split verdict by the Gujarat high court on the controversial appointment of Lokayukta by the Governor, the issue is now likely to go to a third judge for breaking the tie.
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