Hegde was part of conspiracy, says BSY
The knives are clearly out for former Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde. Training his guns on the man whose allegations of corruption against him cost him his seat, former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa claimed on Monday that
he was part of a conspiracy to engineer his downfall by the Congress and the JD(S), who could not bear to see how much the state was progressing under his government.
“It was a conspiracy to put me in trouble. When everything else failed they succeeded in putting me in jail through the investigation report submitted by Justice Hegde.” He charged, addressing a massive taluk BJP workers’ and supporters’ convention at the Mangala Devi Ground.
Seizing on the statement of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty that there was corruption even in the Lokayukta when he was with it as the superintendent of police, he said, “Justice Hegde did not take action against his own corrupt officers but targeted me in a conspiracy. He made a name for himself nationwide by targeting my government. I did not expect such partiality from a retired Supreme Court judge.”
Former chief minister Mr Yeddyurappa also wondered how the Lokayukta could be trusted when there was widespread corruption in its ranks.
“How do we know that it is doing its job fairly?” he asked.
Recalling that although he had ordered the Lokayukta as chief minister to investigate illegal mining and denotification of land from 2002 to 2010, he said Justice Hegde had investigated cases between 2006 and 2010 “only to target me.”
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