Former Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa to spend Diwali in jail

Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is set to spend the festival of Diwali in jail after the Karnataka high court on Monday adjourned his bail plea to October 28.

The 68-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader had sought bail in two of the five corruption cases against him. The Special Lokayukta Court had remanded him to judicial custody -- first to October 22 and later till November 3.

When the case came up before Justice B V Pinto, Yeddyurappa's plea for interim bail was dismissed as "not pressed" by the judge, setting the stage for hearing on regular bail, as favoured by his counsel and that of complainant Sirajin Basha.

But the matter could not be taken up as the submission by the counsel for former Karnataka minister S N Krishnaiah Setty, who was also remanded to judicial custody by the lower court on October 15, remained inconclusive as the court ended its proceedings for the day.

With court holidays on Tuesday and Thursday, and no sitting on Wednesday, further hearing in the cases was adjourned to Friday.

Yeddyurappa is currently lodged in the prison at Parappana Agrahara on the outskirts of the city.