Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Aug 31: After the special court dealing with cases against people's representatives here dismissed five private complaints registered against former chief minister, B S Yeddyurappa, accusing him of irregularities in Arkavathi extension denotification case, Yeddyurappa has now been relieved of all the denotification cases.

Advocate, Sirajin Pasha, had filed five different private complaints in the Lokayukta court during 2016, alleging irregularities relating to 15 denotifications ordered by Yeddyurappa relating to Arkavathi extension when he was chief minister during 2011.

In this respect, Yeddyurappa had, even as hearing into these cases was in progress, approached the high court, complaining that the permission to prosecute him granted by the then governor was not in order. The high court, which took up the case, had dismissed all the five complaints in 2015. With these, all such cases standing against Yeddyurappa had been disposed off.

But Sirajin Basha, in 2016, again filed the same cases in the Lokayukta court. During March this year, these cases were shifted to the special court for people's representatives. The court, which concluded hearing in these cases, dismissed them on Thursday August 30.

This is expected to infuse new enthusiasm in Yeddyurappa, who is on the threshold of managing the Lok Sabha election scheduled to be held shortly.