NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Monday requested the Bharatiya Janata Celebration-led Karnataka authorities to answer a plea by former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa who’s searching for to shut a bribery case revived towards him by the Karnataka excessive courtroom.
On September 23, the highest courtroom stayed the investigation into the bribery case and issued discover to the personal complainant Abraham TJ who accused Yeddyurappa of receiving a bribe of ₹12.5 crore from a development agency in reference to a Bangalore Improvement Authority (BDA) housing challenge.
On Monday, a request was made by senior advocate Siddhartha Dave showing for the previous CM to make the state authorities a celebration. He stated the state was a celebration earlier than the excessive courtroom too.
Permitting the oral request by Dave, the bench of justices Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli stated: “We should always take pleasure in the state’s response”. The courtroom additionally issued discover to the Karnataka authorities and posted the matter for listening to after three weeks.
Yeddyurappa, who’s a senior BJP chief, has challenged the Karnataka excessive courtroom’s September 7 order restoring a non-public criticism towards him by Abraham TJ, an activist. The courtroom solely stayed the investigation towards the previous chief minister however allowed the probe towards the opposite accused, together with Yeddyurappa’s son BY Vijayendra to proceed.
Yeddyurappa argued that the criticism couldn’t proceed within the absence of any sanction. He identified in his petition {that a} bar operates on the particular courtroom from referring the matter for investigation beneath Part 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act with out prior sanction.
The excessive courtroom order handled this argument and interpreted it by saying that this provision utilized to the police and to not a courtroom which orders registration of case. “The bar beneath Part 17A of the PC Act would kick in solely post-registration of FIR when the police are required to begin the investigation,” the excessive courtroom held.
Earlier, the particular CBI courtroom on July 8 final yr dismissed the criticism filed by the activist towards which he filed an attraction with the excessive courtroom.