Monday must surely rank as of the most embarrassing and shameful days in BS Yeddyurappa’s long and eventful political career.
Monday must surely rank as of the most embarrassing and shameful days in BS Yeddyurappa’s long and eventful political career. If being named in the Lok Ayukta report and losing the chief ministership wasn’t enough, the former chief minister was once again given a glimpse of life’s cruel ironies when he was forced to appear before the Lok Ayukta special court on Monday.
Yeddyurappa, along with his sons and son-in-law, appeared in the Lok Ayukta special court in connection with the private complaint filed by advocate Sirajin Basha over the alleged land denotification scams after the high court rejected his anticipatory bail plea earlier in the day.
The Lok Ayukta court, on August 8, issued summons to Yeddyurappa to appear before the court on August 27 regarding the third private complaint filed by Sirajin Basha over alleged land denotifications. When Yeddyurappa did not turn up on Saturday on the grounds that he suffers from hypertension, diabetes and high fever, the lower court exempted him from personal appearance, but directed him to appear before the court on August 29.
It might have been the talk of the town, but the much anticipated trial turned out to be an anti-climax: It lasted for 45 minutes after the court accepted Yeddyurappa’s bail plea and adjourned the case to September 7.
But before the relief, the former CM had the ignominy of watching his kith and kin standing in the court in the accused box in front of a packed crowd as lawyers gathered to see Yeddyurappa.
Yeddyurappa, his sons—Vijayendra and Raghavendra—and son-in-law, Sohan Kumar, were present in court at 2.30pm. They stood in the accused box for about 45 minutes, until 3.45pm. Throughout the hearing, Yeddyurappa and his family maintained an inscrutable look. Even as the hearing started, his counsel submitted a bail petition.
Due to the heavy rush inside the court hall and chaos outside, the judge asked for an acceptable date for the next hearing.
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