The Supreme Court on Monday declined to cancel the anticipatory bail granted to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa by the High Court in a corruption case relating to a mining lease. A Bench of Justice T S Thakur and Justice Ibrahim Kalifulla dismissed the appeal filed by the CBI challenging the anticipatory bail granted to Yeddyurappa by the High Court.
When Additional Solicitor-General Mohan Parasaran, appearing for the CBI, tried to make out a case, the Bench asked why he wanted Yeddyurappa ‘inside.’ Parasaran said Yeddyurappa was not cooperating with the CBI in the investigation and so his anticipatory bail be cancelled.
To this, the Bench said, “If he is not cooperating, then go and seek cancellation of his bail in the High Court.”
The Bench said it could not interfere lightly with the grant of anticipatory bail as the same could be done only on the gravity of the case and the possibility of the accused jumping the bail.
At this, the ASG told the Bench that the findings of the High Court while granting anticipatory bail to Yeddyurappa were not correct as it prima facie gave an impression that the charges against him were baseless and that there was no linkage between the alleged fraudulent transactions relating to grant of lease and funds transferred to him and his family’s account when he was the Chief Minister.
It was on June 21 that the Karnataka High Court had granted conditional anticipatory bail to Yeddyurappa, his two sons and his son-in-law in an illegal mining case.
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