What is the best way to “kill” a report before it is formally submitted to the government and make sure its findings do not have the desired impact on politicians and bigwigs involved? Leak it!

The BJP government in Karnataka came out firing on all cylinders in a desperate bid to discredit the second mining report, which reportedly indicts state chief minister B.S.Yeddyurappa and four members of his Cabinet.

A day after the Lokayukta report on illegal mining was leaked, revealing a “quid pro quo” between chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and a mining company for monetary benefits, the Congress has convened a meeting of senior leaders on Friday to chalk out its future course of action. The meeting assu-mes significance in the wake of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, Dr G. Parameshwar’s admission that a few Congress leaders may also be indicted in the report.

With chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa facing the biggest challenge of the three years he has been in office following his indictment in the Lokayukta’s report on illegal mining, the stage is set for fresh turmoil in the ruling BJP.

A day after his report was leaked, an emotional Justice N. Santosh Hegde refused to accept the BJP’s charge that the leak had affected the sanctity of his reports. Insisting that the findings of his report was still valid, he said the total loss to the state exchequer in the form of royalties was `1,827 crores in a mere 14 months and that the full report would be “substantive and voluminous.”

A day after his report was leaked, an emotional Justice N. Santosh Hegde refused to accept the BJP’s charge that the leak had affected the sanctity of his reports.

Insisting that the findings of his

Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Friday said he would go by the recommendations of Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde on illegal mining and emphasised that he was the only constitutional authority to take

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, mining barons Reddy brothers, Janata Dal-Secular leader H.D. Kumaraswamy and Congress MP Anil Lad are involved in one way or another in illegal mining, Lokay

In the wake of Karnataka Lokayukta's indictment of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on the illegal mining issue, Congress today gunned for his removal, but a defensive BJP said the report had 'lost

Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N. Hegde, probing the illegal mining in the state, today said his phone has been tapped.

Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, said that after reports of alleged b