Lokayukta Agency

Lokayukta sleuths in Karnataka on Wednesday carried out raids at 40 places against 10 government officials in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The anti-corruption vigilance sleuths have seized 1,440 gram gold and a designer necklace worth Rs 24.25 lakh from the house of Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy, an official said.

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday asked his supporters to file a defamation lawsuit against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Nawab Malik after he accused Anna Hazare of taking money to sit for a hunger strike.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen properties worth Rs 1.92 crore of a Karnataka executive engineer under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The Karnataka Lokayukta police reportedly carried out raids at the home and office of former minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in Bellary this morning.

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Uttar Pradesh government two days to appoint a new anti-corruption ombudsman or Lokayukta. The top court has repeatedly directed the government to replace the existing Lokayukta but the orders have not been complied with.

A Parliamentary panel examining the Lokpal bill may recommend that the proposed anti-corruption watchdog be a single window stop for probing all corruption complaints against government functionaries by ending multiplicity of investigating agencies to investigate graft cases.

Noted Rajasthani social activist Gurcharan Chabbra, who was on an indefinite hunger strike demanding liquor ban and strengthening of Lokayukta in the state, died at a hospital in Jaipur today.

After his son was arrested in a corruption case, the Lokayukta or ombudsman of Karantaka, Justice V Bhaskar Rao, is reportedly consulting legal experts about whether he should quit office today.

A state legislator in Karnataka is now being investigated for allegedly threatening a junior of senior bureaucrat DK Ravi, whose death is being investigated by the country's premier investigating agency, the CBI.

In a veiled warning to the Bhartiya Janata Party government, Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today said he would not allow dilution or weakening of Lokayukta and independence of investigating agencies would be maintained.

As the government preps for a tough battle in the Rajya Sabha over the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, the focal point of its concern is a key partner, Mamata Banerjee. She wants 14 pages of the bill which deal with Lokayuktas or anti-corruption agencies at the state level to be dropped because she believes this section violates the autonomy of states...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was arrested and sent to jail on Saturday in an alleged land scam, was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore in the early hours today after he complained of "discomfort" in the chest and would be kept under observation for 48 hours.

The BJP wants Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal recalled for appointing a Lokayukta or ombudsman in the state without the consent of the Narendra Modi-led government. The party says the Governor's act is a "constitutional violation and an attack on federalism" and it forced repeated adjournments in Parliament on the issue today.

Former chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy will not appear before the Lokayukta special court today, as he is pleading exemption from personal appearance. The exemption has been granted till September 5.

Lokayukta sleuths in Karnataka on Wednesday carried out raids at 40 places against 10 government officials in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The anti-corruption vigilance sleuths have seized 1,440 gram gold and a designer necklace worth Rs 24.25 lakh from the house of Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy, an official said.

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday asked his supporters to file a defamation lawsuit against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Nawab Malik after he accused Anna Hazare of taking money to sit for a hunger strike.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen properties worth Rs 1.92 crore of a Karnataka executive engineer under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The Karnataka Lokayukta police reportedly carried out raids at the home and office of former minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in Bellary this morning.

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Uttar Pradesh government two days to appoint a new anti-corruption ombudsman or Lokayukta. The top court has repeatedly directed the government to replace the existing Lokayukta but the orders have not been complied with.

A Parliamentary panel examining the Lokpal bill may recommend that the proposed anti-corruption watchdog be a single window stop for probing all corruption complaints against government functionaries by ending multiplicity of investigating agencies to investigate graft cases.

Noted Rajasthani social activist Gurcharan Chabbra, who was on an indefinite hunger strike demanding liquor ban and strengthening of Lokayukta in the state, died at a hospital in Jaipur today.

After his son was arrested in a corruption case, the Lokayukta or ombudsman of Karantaka, Justice V Bhaskar Rao, is reportedly consulting legal experts about whether he should quit office today.

A state legislator in Karnataka is now being investigated for allegedly threatening a junior of senior bureaucrat DK Ravi, whose death is being investigated by the country's premier investigating agency, the CBI.

In a veiled warning to the Bhartiya Janata Party government, Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today said he would not allow dilution or weakening of Lokayukta and independence of investigating agencies would be maintained.

As the government preps for a tough battle in the Rajya Sabha over the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, the focal point of its concern is a key partner, Mamata Banerjee. She wants 14 pages of the bill which deal with Lokayuktas or anti-corruption agencies at the state level to be dropped because she believes this section violates the autonomy of states...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was arrested and sent to jail on Saturday in an alleged land scam, was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore in the early hours today after he complained of "discomfort" in the chest and would be kept under observation for 48 hours.

The BJP wants Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal recalled for appointing a Lokayukta or ombudsman in the state without the consent of the Narendra Modi-led government. The party says the Governor's act is a "constitutional violation and an attack on federalism" and it forced repeated adjournments in Parliament on the issue today.

Former chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy will not appear before the Lokayukta special court today, as he is pleading exemption from personal appearance. The exemption has been granted till September 5.