Ex-Karnataka IT minister & his son in police custody

Bangalore: Former minister for information & technology, Katta Subhramanya Naidu & his son Katta Jagdish, were issued non-bail able warrant for taking Rs. 87 crore the allocation of the land for the establishment of an IT company. They are sent to judicial custody after the Lokayukta Court rejected their bail pleas on Monday.

Jagadish Naidu is a corporate of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) or Greater Bangalore City Cooperation. Additional City Civil & Sessions Court judge N K Sudhinra Rao refused to issue them bail & ordered them to be taken in custody immediately. Special Public Prosecutor, Pramod Chandra told to the reporters that, both of them will be in jail till August 22, 2011, till the higher court grants them bail. The Naidus are accussed of taking Rs 87 crore for providing 325 acres of land to Itasca Software near Banglaore.

With the Naidus, the managing director of the software company, S V Srinivas is also got accused whose bail plea was also rejected. On July 08, the Lokayukta police filed a charge sheet against the illegal allotment of land. After the registration of an FIR, Naidu resigned from the ministry of the ex-chief minister, B S Yeddurappa in last December.

Subhramanya Naidu is charged with the allotment of the land & contravention rules when he was the industries minister in the Janta Dal (Secular) with the coalition of BJP in 2006-07. On December 3, 2010, Naidu as an IT minister resigned from the ministry of Yeddurappa, when Lokayukta (ombudsman) police filed a case against him. Jagadish Naidu was arrested in October 2010 for trying to bribe to the witness. He was in jail for the same case.

In another case, court issued summons against Yeddurappa & other 14 ministers to appear in front of the court on August 27 in connection with other private complaints against them. Yeddurappa is alleged for denotifying lands favoring his family members. Pronouncing the order on the second complaint by advocate Sirajin Basha, Judge Sudhindra Rao said Yeddurappa to appear in court directly on August 27.

In the complaint, Basha has alleged that Yeddurappa issued 2.5 acres in Arakere village, 1.7 acres in Devarachikkanahalli in Bangalore South taluk and 1.21 acres in Geddalahalli village in Bangalore East taluk contravening rules. Yeddurappa quitted from the post of chief minister of Karnataka when the Lokayukta police filed illegal mining case against him.

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