SC Brakes Yediyurappa Arrest
- 28-Jan-2021
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Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa gets relief from arrest in connection with a 2012 cheating and forgery case. On Wednesday, Supreme Court granted protection to Yediyurappa.
SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, also stayed the arrest of former state industries minister Murugesh Nirani, co-accused in the matter.
The two had moved the top court against a January 5 order of the Karnataka high court by which criminal proceedings against the two were revived.
The case involved charges of criminal conspiracy and forgery of documents purported to have been issued by complainant Alam Pasha in 2012, during Yediyurappa’s first term as chief minister. Besides Yediyurappa and Nirani, former principal secretary V P Baligar and former managing director of Karnataka Udyog Mitra Shivaswamy K are the other accused in the case.
