Hearing of complaints against Yeddyurappa adjourned to Sep 13

All complaints pertain to irregularities in denotification of govt land by Yeddy and his kin

PTI | September 7, 2011



A Lokayukta court on Wednesday adjourned to Sept13, hearing of private complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his family, on which he had been issued summons last month.

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 filed a vakalat to the said effect.

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 the 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 today and also during the last hearing on August 29, be exempted from personal appearance as it was not only "causing incovenience to public because of security reasons but was also distrupting judicial proceedings because of the huge crowd that had gathered outside the court hall".

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