BENGALURU: A fast-track court in Bengaluru Thursday issued a
non-bailable warrant
against veteran BJP leader and former CM BS Yediyurappa in a
Pocso case
registered against him by Sadashivnagar police on March 14.
Yediyurappa has approached the high court, seeking quashing of the Pocso case against him and anticipatory bail. Both petitions will come up for hearing before a designated bench of the Karnataka HC on Friday afternoon.
A woman had filed a complaint, alleging Yediyurappa had sexually assaulted her 17-year-old daughter when they visited him, seeking legal intervention in a rape case where the girl was the victim.
Special prosecutor Ashok Nayak told fast-track court judge NM Ramesh at the hearing that CID had been facing legal and other hurdles in investigating the case. “If called for inquiry, the accused is asking for time and ignoring notices. Some evidence has already been destroyed. More evidence will get destroyed by the accused, if given time.”
Nayak alleged that the accused “forcibly stuffed Rs 2 lakh into the purse of the girl’s mother” on the day of the crimes, saying “they might need it”. “The mother recorded a few minutes of the conversation on her mobile… the audio in its original form is with investigators,” he said.
The Pocso case was filed at Bengaluru’s Sadashivanagar police station on March 14, based on a now-deceased woman’s complaint that her teenage daughter was sexually assaulted by Yediyurappa when they visited him in Feb this year.
Yediyurappa, too, approached the court, seeking anticipatory bail and quashing of the Pocso case.
