Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was on Saturday ordered to be taken into judicial custody for seven days by a special Lokayukta court in Bangalore after he surrendered. This was after the court rejected his plea for bail in a corruption case.
Yeddyurappa?s arrest comes as a blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whose senior leader L K Advani is currently leading a cross-country ?yatra? to campaign against corruption. The BJP, however, maintained that the charges against Yeddyurappa have not been proven yet.
Amid dramatic developments through the afternoon, Yeddyurappa surrendered in court around 5 pm on Saturday even as a Lokayukta police team had been dispatched to his residence to execute a non-bailable warrant for not appearing in court earlier in the day. Yeddyurappa had sought exemption from appearing in the court, complaining of backache.
Judge N K Sudheendra Rao rejected his bail application in the case and remanded him to judicial custody till October 22.
The court?s orders came on two private complaints of illegal denotification of land near Bangalore in which Yeddyurappa has been accused along with several others.
The court also denied bail to former Karnataka housing minister S N Krishnaiah Setty, while it granted relief to 14 other accused persons including Yeddyurappa?s sons B Y Raghavendra, B Y Vijayendra and his son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar.
Raghavendra is a sitting Lok Sabha MP from Shimoga.
Setty collapsed in the court complex on hearing the order to remand him to judicial custody till October 22. Meanwhile, Yeddyurappa requested the court for medical care.
Yeddyurappa is facing a slew of private complaints alleging illegal denotification of land when he was chief minister. The complaints were filed by two Bangalore-based lawyers after they received sanction from the state governor in January this year.