Arrest seems imminent: Seeks Anticipatory Bail
21 places under raid include his residences, farm houses and offices
Caption: 1) The CBI sleuths outside the Dollar's Colony residence of Yeddyurappa. 2) Policemen keeping a watch during the raid.
Bangalore, May 16- In an unprecedented early morning development, the sleuths of CBI, armed with search warrants issued by a designated CBI court, this morning raided the residences and offices of the beleaguered former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, his sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijayendra, son-in-law Sohan Kumar, former Minister Krishnaiah Setty and officials of Jindal Steel Works, in search of documents pertaining to illegal mining and illegal land denotifications in the State.
This comes hours after the central probe agency registered an FIR [See report page 4] naming Yeddyurappa, his two sons and two others in a mining case on the Supreme Court's order based on the Central Empowered Committee's (CEC) recommendations.
A nine-member team headed by Bangalore CBI SP Subramanyeshwara Rao commenced the raids at Yeddyurappa's residences in Dollars Colony and Race Course Road besides the Dhawalagiri properties on Kumara Krupa Road here, owned by his kith and kin.
The team raided as many as 21 places including three in BSY's hometown Shimoga and the Race Course road and Dollars Colony residences of the former CM.
It is reported that the team of officials, which flew to Bangalore late night yesterday, encircled the intended targets right from 2 am before swooping on their targets in the early hours to ensure that none of the targeted persons could get away.
It is also reported that CBI DIG Hithendra personally supervised the raid at the Race Course road residence. All entrances and exit points in the targeted buildings had been closed.
Even as the CBI raided his houses this morning, Yeddyurappa and his sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijayendra apprehensive of t...more