10/05/2012 - Myclipp

Business Line/ - Industry & Company, Qua, 16 de Maio de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
CBI raids at Yeddyurappa, kin’s
residences
Swinging into action a day after filing an FIR against
former Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr B.S.
Yeddyurappa, in connection with illegal mining, CBI
officials today conducted simultaneous raids at the
senior BJP leader?s residences here and in some
other places in the state.A joint team of CBI officials
from Hyderabad and Bangalore also raided the
residences of Mr Yeddyurappa?s sons, Mr B.Y.
Raghavendra, MP, and Mr B.Y. Vijayendra, as also his
son-in-law, Mr R.N. Sohan Kumar, here and their
home district Shimoga, police sources said.A
nine-member team headed by Inspector-General of
CBI, Mr Lakshminarayana, commenced the raids at Mr
Yeddyurappa?s residences in Dollars Colony and
Race Course Road here besides a firm owned by one
of his sons, the sources told PTI.The raids come in the
wake of the CBI registering a case against Mr
Yeddyurappa and others in line with the May 11
Supreme Court directive.The apex court had ordered
a probe by the central agency into alleged undue
favours shown by Mr Yeddyurappa to firms involved in
illegal mining in lieu of donations to a charitable trust
run by his kin when he was the Chief Minister.The
raids began at 6.15 am and would continue throughout
the day, the sources said.The CBI action comes at a
time when Mr Yeddyurappa is facing the heat of
internal turmoil in the BJP triggered by a revolt by his
loyalists gunning for a change of leadership of Mr D.V.
Sadananda Gowda with nine ministers and many
MLAs submitting their resignations to him.After
aggressive postures that pushed the BJP?s first-ever
government in the south to the brink, Mr Yeddyurappa
on Monday said he had decided to quit the party but
was putting it off heeding to the advice of party senior
leader Mr Arun Jaitely and others.Mr Yeddyurappa,
who was forced to quit last year after the Lokayukta
report indictment on illegal mining, is also battling a
spate of cases for alleged irregularities in land
denotification.
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