Court will hear of BS Yeddyurappa bail plea
BANGALORE: On Tuesday the Karnataka high court will hear the bail pleas of BS Yeddyurappa. The former chief minister of Karnataka arrested in connection with two corruption cases.
On Monday lawyers for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader filed two petitions in the court, one for interim bail and another for regular bail, and requested they be heard Tuesday. Justice B.V. Pinto agreed to the request.
Yeddyurappa was arrested on Saturday and sent to judicial custody till Oct 22, the 68-year-old spent only a few hours behind bars at the Bangalore’s mail jail in Parappana Agrahara, an eastern suburb.
He was shifted from jail early Sunday to Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research after he complained of chest pain.
The institute’s director C.N. Manjunath has appointed a team of five doctors to monitor Yeddyurappa’s health. An angiogram is likely to be conducted later Monday to determine whether he has heart problems or is suffering from complications arising out of diabetics and blood pressure.
The former chief minister was arrested after special Lokayukta court judge N. Sudhindra Rao declined bail on Saturday in two of the five cases corruption and illegal land deals filed against Yeddyurappa by two Bangalore advocates.
The advocates, Sirajin Bhasha and N.K. Balaraj, have charged Yeddyurappa, his two sons, BJP Lok Sabha member B.Y. Raghavendra and B. Y. Vijayendra and son-in-law R. Sohan Kumar of conspiracy to denotify government land in return for monetary gains.
