[1]In a major relief to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition for vacating the stay on trial proceedings before a Bengaluru special court in a land allocation case.
The private complaint was filed following grant of sanction by Governor H.R. Bhardwaj.
Refusing to entertain the petition of Sirajin Basha, the complainant, who had filed the case, a bench of Justices V.S. Sirpurkar and T.S. Thakur asked his counsel K.K. Venugopal to take up the issue with the Karnataka High Court itself which had passed the stay order.
However, the apex court asked the HC to dispose of the petition of Basha, a Bengaluru advocate, within six weeks after it is filed.
Mr Basha, had moved the apex court earlier this month through advocate Prashant Kumar challenging the March 29 order of the high court granting stay on the trial court proceedings on the petition of Yeddyurappa's son-in-law Sohankumar.
Basha's counsel Mr Venugopal told the top court that the stay order was passed by the high court ex-parte without hearing the complainant. But the apex court told the senior counsel that, the remedy only lies with the high court as it had granted the interim stay.
Basha in his petition had submitted before the apex court that though the CM had not himself filed a petition in the HC, he had made his son-in-law, one of the accused in the case, do so.
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