Karnataka ex-CM denied anticipatory bail in mining scam
Breaking news : A Special Lokayukta (Ombudsman) Court here on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Karnataka's former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in a mining case in which he is alleged to have taken bribe for favours. "I need not panic because my anticipatory bail plea has been rejected. I have to follow my advocate's advice. My future course of action will be decided by my advocate," Kumaraswamy, a Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) lawmaker, told reporters here. The anti-graft watchdog court had granted a seven-day interim bail to Kumaraswamy on May 17 in the Janthakal mining case. The former Chief Minister is accused of misusing office, corruption and illegal grants of permission when he was the Chief Minister of the state's first JD-S-BJP coalition government in 2006-07. "They are raking up an 11-year-old case. It is political vendetta," he said. Though state Revenue Principal Secretary Gangaram Baderia was arrested on May ...