Times of India: Bengaluru: Sunday,
August 07, 2016.
A city
Lokayukta special court on Saturday rejected a private plaint lodged by two
city based RTI activists wherein they had sought for a direction to either the
ACB or the High Grounds Police to conduct an investigation against an
unidentified person who allegedly made an offer to the chief justice of
Karnataka high court for doing a favour in relation to a petition listed on
July 5.
Special judge
rejected the complaint filed by S Bhaskaran and Jayakumar Hiremath stating that
the court cannot act merely on media reports and that the complainants have
failed to substantiate their claim.
The
complainants had moved the special court complaining that the local police
refused to register the case. This was based on a media report that on July 5,
the chief justice had disclosed in the open court that a person had approached
him with an offer to expedite the case listed at serial number 34, a review
petition filed by Umrah Developers. The chief justice also recused from the
said case.
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