Yeddy should be prosecuted: Justice Hegde

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ktaka-lokayukta-submits-report-on-illegal-mining/170780-37-64.html

Within minutes of Mr Hegde going public with his charges against the
Chief Minister and his family, Mr Yeddyurappa left for Delhi on a
chartered flight to discuss his political future with BJP leaders. He's
unlikely, sources say, to find a sympathetic audience. Speaking to NDTV,
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said,"Illegal mining is wrong.
There is no doubt about it. The party will take a judicious decision
that's expected of us." (Watch: Yeddyurappa, the man with the political six-pack)

Mr
Hegde is the Lokayukta or ombudsman of Karnataka. His report -10,000
pages that filled two steel trunks - says that between 2006 and 2010 the
state lost Rs. 16,085 crores
because of illegal mining. It indicts Mr Yeddyurappa and his children
for illicit relations with mining companies. (Watch: Who is BS Yeddyurappa?)

Other
senior politicians are also found guilty of sanctioning or
participating in illegal mining. They include former Chief Minister and
Opposition leader HD Kumaraswamy; the Reddy brothers - Janardhana and
Karunakara - who are mining barons and cabinet ministers; and Congress
MP Anil Lad. (Read: Bellary - Mined over and over again by Karnataka politicians)




The charges against Mr
Yeddyurappa are so grim that even his famed skills for political
survival are unlikely to save the day. Mr Hegde finds that a trust
fund run by the Chief Minister's family in his home area of Shimoga
received Rs. 10 crore from a
company dealing in iron-ore . The donor was not financially stable, and
borrowed the money it paid the Trust. The Lokayukta also says that a
mining company purchased an acre of land for Rs. 20 crore from the Trust, whereas the land was not worth more than Rs.
1.25 crore. Mr Hegde described this as "an abnormal payment" and
said,"We have come to an incontrovertible conclusion that this donation
and sale consideration has been made for reasons other than genuine
reasons."

Mr Hegde said that he has come to the conclusion that
there "is a possible offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act" and
he has asked Governor HR Bhardwaj to decide what action needs to be
taken now against the Chief Minister and the other politicians he has
faulted. Mr Bhardwaj has publicly and frequently clashed with the BJP
government and has in the past recommended that Mr Yeddyurappa be
dismissed and President's Rule be introduced in Karnataka.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/karnataka-yeddyurappa-flies-to-delhi-after-lokayuta-report-indicts-him-122526