The Opposition Janata Dal Secular brought more pressure for the resignation of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday by questioning a series of cheque transactions showing Rs 20 crore was transferred to the accounts of the Chief Minister?s sons and a son-in-law from a Bellary mining company in August this year, barely days after Yeddyurappa banned iron ore exports.

According to documents placed before the media by H D Kumaraswamy, the ledger accounts for the month of August 2010 for the company, South West Mining Ltd, located at the JSW township in Bellary show three cheques each in favour of the bank accounts of Yeddyurappa?s sons B Y Raghavendra, B Y Vijayendra and son-in-law R Sohan Kumar were issued on July 30, August 25 and 31.

Though the official accounting in copies of the company?s ledger says the cheques are for ?purchase of land near the Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore,? Kumaraswamy alleged a possible illegal mining-related transaction and has challenged Yeddyurappa to place records of all mining-related decisions taken by his government in August this year as well as documents if any to show the actual sale of land.

Yeddyurappa?s son B Y Raghavendra, who received Rs 10 crore through cheque numbers 002418, 004367 and 004442 into his State Bank of Mysore account number 64010486365, said the money he received was for land he sold earlier this year when he needed some money. ?We did not know it was a mining company that the land was being sold to. We sold the land because we needed the money then,? Yeddyurappa?s older son said on Saturday acknowledging the deal.

Yeddyurappa?s second son received cheques bearing the numbers 002419, 004368 and 004443 into the same SBM account 64010486365. His son-in-law got cheques bearing numbers 004369 and 004444 also in the same SBM account.

As per the copies of the ledger accounts of South West Mining Ltd, Raghavendra, Vijayendra and Sohan Kumar were paid Rs 10 crore, Rs 5 crore and Rs 5 crore respectively for the purchase of one acre of land at Manyata Tech Park and near it.

The transactions incidentally occurred close on the heels of Yeddyurappa?who holds the mining portfolio?banning exports of iron ore from Karnataka on July 26 and the transport of iron ore in the state on June 28 in the face of growing allegations of illegal exports from the mining district of Bellary.