18 August,2011 07:03 AM IST | | Imran Gowhar
Multi-crore fake stamp paper kingpin's lawyer to epresent corruption watchdog department against Katta Subramanya, his son Katta Jagadish Naidu and Itasca Managing Director Srinivas
Senior Advocate M T Nanaiah, representing multi-crore fake stamp paper kingpin Karim Telgi's case, will now be representing Lokayukta against tainted former Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu in the High Court.
Egal eagle: Advocate M T Nanaiah representing mutli-crore stamp
paper kingpin Karim Telgi also representing corruption watchdog in a
case against the Kattas
Katta Subramanya and son Katta Jagadish Naidu, along with Srinivas, MD of Itasca have filed a bail petition in the HC after their plea was rejected by the lower court and they were remanded to Judicial custody.
Senior Counsel Ravi Naik, who appeared on behalf of respondents, stated that they have no objections to Nanaiah appearing on behalf of Lokayukta.
"Though law does not permit, we have no objections," Naik told the court. During the hearing, Katta's counsel C V Nagesh said that a 16,000-page charge sheet has been filed against the petitioners within an hour of their arrest. He also expressed his doubts over the charge sheet.
He further submitted that Katta Subramanya was forced to cut short his foreign tour and then taken into custody. Stating that the petitioner is innocent, he sought for bail.
Meanwhile, in another development the HC has adjourned the hearing of a petition by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa after the counsel for the petitioners sought time to go through the U V Singh report submitted by Lokayukta to the court.
Following the HC's directions, the Lokayukta submitted the report to the court. It may be recalled that based on the report, Yeddyurappa was indicted in the Lokayukta report of favoring two mining companies. He had moved the HC challenging the Lokayukta report indicting him in illegal mining and had said in his submission that the findings recorded by the Lokayukta are without jurisdiction. The former CM had submitted that the finding by the institute is based on presumption and not on evidence to be booked under Prevention of Corruption Act.
'Don't send him to Pune'
Following the decision by Central Prison authorities to shiftu00a0 Abdul Karim Telgi to Yerwada jail, his wife Shahida Telgi requested against it citing threat to life, besides deteriorating health condition. In her letter to the additional director general of prisons, she said, "My husband is being transferred to Yerwada jail in Pune where his life is in danger." She added that Telgi's confessional statement before the magistrate connected him to people fromu00a0 Maharashtra and that shifting him back to Yerwada Jail would endanger his life.
