Yeddyurappa arrested in corruption case and will spend this Diwali behind bars.
former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was Saturday jailed in two corruption cases, causing a severe loss of face for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as senior leader L.K. Advani is on a nation-wide anti-corruption yatra.
He was arrested and sent to jail till Oct 22 in two cases of illegally denotifying lands (freeing from government control) in and around Bangalore in return for monetary gains.
The arrest came after Lokayukta special court Judge N.K. Sudhindra Rao rejected Yeddyurappa's bail plea in the two cases, filed in January this year by two Bangalore advocates - Sirajin Basha and N.K. Balaraj.
He was arrested and sent to jail till Oct 22 in two cases of illegally denotifying lands (freeing from government control) in and around Bangalore in return for monetary gains.
