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Congress's Swipe At PM Over "Bellary Gang" After Top Court Order
With the Supreme Court directing parties to upload online details of pending criminal cases against candidates contesting polls, the Congress on Thursday attacked the BJP over appointing a minister in Karnataka who is accused in mining cases, and alleged that the directive has already been "torn to shreds" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Mining Baron Janardhan Reddy Arrested In Bribery Case In Bengaluru
Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was questioned for hours in an alleged bribery case last evening, has been arrested, the police said. Ali Khan, a close aid of Janardhan Reddy, was also arrested. The former minister, who is facing multiple charges of corruption, has already spent three years in jail. He was o...
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Meet The Ex-Aide Of Ballari's Mining Barons, Now In The Congress
In the Karnataka elections, the Congress has targeted the BJP for fielding the controversial Reddy brothers, mining barons from Ballari, better known as Bellary, in north Karnataka synonymous with corruption
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"Captive CBI Rescued Reddy Brothers": Congress Sharpens Attack At PM Modi
In one of its sharpest attack on BJP ahead of next month's Karnataka's assembly election, the Congress today put out documents that it said, showed how the federal probe agency CBI had shut down cases in the state's biggest iron-ore mining scandal that had cost BJP's BS Yeddyurappa the chief minister's chair back in 2011. Three mining baron brother...
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BJP Picks Corruption-Charged Reddy Brother In Karnataka, Says "Compromise"
The BJP second list of 82 names released this evening contained a surprise candidate -- Gali Somashekhara Reddy fielded from Bellary City -- which drew immediate jeers from the Congress. Fifty-two-year-old G Somashekhara Reddy is the youngest of Reddy brothers, mining barons for whom the iron ore-rich district of Bellary was home turf. State BJP sp...
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Probe 2 Ex-Chief Ministers In Karnataka Mining Scam, Says Supreme Court
Six years after a Lokayukta report indicted two Karnataka chief ministers N Dharam Singh and HD Kumaraswamy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a probe into the role played by the two politicians in a mining scam. The probe, to be conducted by the state's special investigation team, will have to report its findings to the court within three mo...
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Why Many Are Anxious About Lokayukta's Future In Karnataka
It is more than three months since Justice Bhaskar Rao -- Karnataka Lokayukta whose son had been arrested for allegedly running an extortion racket from Lokayukta offices -- had stepped down. Since then, the anti-corruption body, which in the past had taken on anyone -- from former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to the powerful mining barons of Bell...
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Karnataka Lokayukta Police Raid Ex-Minister Janardhan Reddy's Home, Office
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.
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Former Karnataka Minister Janardhan Reddy Arrested in Illegal Mining Case
Mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy was today arrested by Karnataka Lokayukta Special Investigation Team in connection with an illegal mining case allegedly involving his company.
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Mining Baron and Ex-Minister Janardhan Reddy Leaves Jail After 3 Years
Once among the most powerful men in Karnataka, G Janardhan Reddy left a jail in Bengaluru today, where he was moved from a Hyderabad prison in March 2013. He has spent three years in jail.
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Congress's Swipe At PM Over "Bellary Gang" After Top Court Order
With the Supreme Court directing parties to upload online details of pending criminal cases against candidates contesting polls, the Congress on Thursday attacked the BJP over appointing a minister in Karnataka who is accused in mining cases, and alleged that the directive has already been "torn to shreds" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Mining Baron Janardhan Reddy Arrested In Bribery Case In Bengaluru
Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was questioned for hours in an alleged bribery case last evening, has been arrested, the police said. Ali Khan, a close aid of Janardhan Reddy, was also arrested. The former minister, who is facing multiple charges of corruption, has already spent three years in jail. He was o...
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Meet The Ex-Aide Of Ballari's Mining Barons, Now In The Congress
In the Karnataka elections, the Congress has targeted the BJP for fielding the controversial Reddy brothers, mining barons from Ballari, better known as Bellary, in north Karnataka synonymous with corruption
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"Captive CBI Rescued Reddy Brothers": Congress Sharpens Attack At PM Modi
In one of its sharpest attack on BJP ahead of next month's Karnataka's assembly election, the Congress today put out documents that it said, showed how the federal probe agency CBI had shut down cases in the state's biggest iron-ore mining scandal that had cost BJP's BS Yeddyurappa the chief minister's chair back in 2011. Three mining baron brother...
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BJP Picks Corruption-Charged Reddy Brother In Karnataka, Says "Compromise"
The BJP second list of 82 names released this evening contained a surprise candidate -- Gali Somashekhara Reddy fielded from Bellary City -- which drew immediate jeers from the Congress. Fifty-two-year-old G Somashekhara Reddy is the youngest of Reddy brothers, mining barons for whom the iron ore-rich district of Bellary was home turf. State BJP sp...
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Probe 2 Ex-Chief Ministers In Karnataka Mining Scam, Says Supreme Court
Six years after a Lokayukta report indicted two Karnataka chief ministers N Dharam Singh and HD Kumaraswamy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a probe into the role played by the two politicians in a mining scam. The probe, to be conducted by the state's special investigation team, will have to report its findings to the court within three mo...
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Why Many Are Anxious About Lokayukta's Future In Karnataka
It is more than three months since Justice Bhaskar Rao -- Karnataka Lokayukta whose son had been arrested for allegedly running an extortion racket from Lokayukta offices -- had stepped down. Since then, the anti-corruption body, which in the past had taken on anyone -- from former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to the powerful mining barons of Bell...
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Karnataka Lokayukta Police Raid Ex-Minister Janardhan Reddy's Home, Office
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.
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Former Karnataka Minister Janardhan Reddy Arrested in Illegal Mining Case
Mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy was today arrested by Karnataka Lokayukta Special Investigation Team in connection with an illegal mining case allegedly involving his company.
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Mining Baron and Ex-Minister Janardhan Reddy Leaves Jail After 3 Years
Once among the most powerful men in Karnataka, G Janardhan Reddy left a jail in Bengaluru today, where he was moved from a Hyderabad prison in March 2013. He has spent three years in jail.
