Defamation case filed against Deve Gowda

A defamation case was filed in a court against former prime minister and JDS chief H D Deve Gowda for his abusive remarks against Karnataka Advocate General Ashok Haranahally.

A defamation case was filed on Tuesday in a court here against former prime minister and JDS chief H D

Deve Gowda for his abusive remarks against Karnataka Advocate General Ashok Haranahally over the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project.

Hubli Youth Advocates Association Convenor Shivananda Vaddatti filed the case in the Judicial Magistrate First Class Court II.

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The hearing of the suit will come up on February 2.

Gowda,leading a farmers’ agitation against acquisition of land by NICE (Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise) for the project in Hemmigepura in Ramanagaram district,had on Sunday used abusive language against Haranahally.

He had called him a “liar who has lied before the Supreme Court for acquisition of land for the project”.

He had accused the Advocate General of filing a “false affidavit before Supreme Court for handing over land for BMIC project”.

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Gowda had also called Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa ‘bloody bastard’.

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