Audio clip case: Karnataka HC allows probe against CM Yediyurappa for ‘trying to poach MLA’
Yediyurappa had earlier dismissed the audio clip as fake. He later admitted to the conversation, but blamed Kumaraswamy for conspiring against him using the complainant, Sharanagouda.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddiyurappa (File) The Karnataka High Court Wednesday permitted investigation against Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa in a criminal case registered against him for allegedly trying to poach an MLA from Janata Dal (Secular) with the offer of money and a ministerial berth, in 2019.
An interim order pronounced by Justice John Michael Cunha on Wednesday vacated the earlier order (dated February 2019) which had stayed probe into the case. Sharanagouda Kandakur, son of JD(S) MLA Naganagouda Kandakur, had allegedly recorded a conversation that took place between him and Yediyurappa at Yadgir Circuit House on the night of February 7, 2019.
Yediyurappa, who was then Karnataka BJP president, had purportedly discussed the possibility of getting Sharanagouda’s father to join the party, as recorded in the audio clip. Sharanagouda later lodged a complaint with the police, and FIR was registered against Yediyurappa.
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