BJP bosses in city for BS Yeddyurappa's family wedding

BANGALORE: Top bosses of the BJP from New Delhi will be in Bangalore on Wednesday, and this time, their mission is not firefighting. They are here to attend the wedding of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's grand daughter.
BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi are among those who will be landing in the city for the wedding. Yeddyurappa's grand daughter BU Apoorva, daughter of SY Aruna Devi, is marrying her classmate B Chandrakanth.They completed their engineering course together. The wedding reception is at Bangalore Palace.
Bail plea adjourned
A CBI court on Tuesday adjourned to June 1, hearing on the anticipatory bail petitions of Yeddyurappa and his kin, who apprehended arrest in an illegal mining case. CBI judge D R Venkat Sudarshan adjourned the pleas of Yeddyurappa, his sons BY Raghavendra and BY Vijendra, and son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar after their counsel Siddarth Navadagi filed objections to CBI's application, seeking their personal appearance.
At this, the Special Public Prosecutor submitted that he would not press for the personal appearance of the petitioners and sought time till June 1 for final arguments on their plea. On May 25, the CBI had strongly opposed the anticipatory bail petitions of Yeddyurappa and his family, on the ground that their custodial interrogation might be necessary.
The CBI had registered a case against Yeddyurappa and others in compliance with a Supreme Court directive and raided their residences and other premises in Bangalore and Shimoga on May 16. Meanwhile, the Lokayukta court posted for June 5 a fresh private complaint against Yeddyurappa, housing minister V Somanna and his family members, alleging irregularities in the denotification of land.
Lokayukta judge N K Sudhindra Rao will pronounce orders on whether to order a probe based on the complaint.