Yeddyurappa in fresh trouble as ACB files two FIRs

Bengaluru, Aug 18 :  Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP State President B S Yeddyurappa is in fresh trouble with the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) filing two more FIRs against him in connection with denotification of land during his tenure as Chief Minister. Four officials of the Urban Development Department have also named in the First Information Report (FIRs) by the ACB. According to sources the FIRs were registered under the Prevention of Corruoption Act sections 7, 8, 13(1)(c)(d) and IPC sections 406, 420 and 120 (B). The FIRs were filed following a complaint by former Vice Chancellor of a private University Dr D Ayappa who has alleged that Mr Yeddyurappa during his tenure passed 20 orders to denotify land acquired for Dr Shivarama Karanth Layout in the Bengaluru city. It was alleged that Mr Yeddyurappa misused his office and denotified 257 acre and 20.5 Gunte of land acquired without taking approval from the Denotification Committee. The officials whose names were named in the FIRs included Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) Special Land Acquisition Officer Basavarajendra, his Principal Secretary Subir Harisingh, Assistant Commissioner S N Gowrishankar, Assistant Secretary Basavaraju, according to a release by ACB here today. It may be recalled here that denotification issues became a nightmare to Mr Yeddyurappa and in one such case he was forced to stepdown from Chief Minister post and serve jail term for about one month. UNI