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The Economic Times/ - Politics/Nation, Qua, 16 de Maio de 2012
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CBI raids Yedyyurappa, kin's residences
BANGALORE: Swinging into action a day after filing
an FIR against former Karnataka Chief Minister B S
Yeddyurappa in connection with illegal mining, CBI
officials today conducted simultaneous raids at the
senior BJP leader's residences in Bangalore and in
some other places in the state.
A joint team of CBI officials from Hyderabad and
Bangalore also raided residences of Yeddyurappa's
sons B Y Raghavendra, MP, and B Y Vijayendra as
also his son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar here and their
home district Shimoga, police sources said.
A nine-member team headed by Inspector General of
CBI Lakshminarayana commenced the raids at
Yeddyurappa's residences in Dollars Colony and Race
Course Road here besides a firm owned by one of his
sons, the sources said.
The raids come in the wake of the CBI registering a
case against Yeddyurappa and others in line with the
May 11 Supreme Court directive ordering a probe by
the central agency into alleged undue favours shown
by him 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 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 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,
Yeddyurappa on Monday said he had decided to quit
the party but was putting it off heeding the advise of
party senior leader Arun Jaitely and others.
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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