Court issues NBW against Shivana Gouda Naik, HDK
A court in Raichur has issued Non-Bailable Warrants against Karnataka Minister K Shivana Gouda Naik and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy following their failure to appear before it in response to summons issued against them.
Naik, Minister for Libraries, and JD(S) leader Kumaraswamy face criminal charges filed against them for violating the mode code of conduct during the 2008 assembly elections in the state.
The Deodurga Judicial First Class Magistrate Court (JMFC) on Friday rejected the pleas of the counsel for both to give them some more time for appearance and issued the NBW directing the police to produce them on June 25.
Naik, who won from Deodurga constituency on JD(S) ticket, later quit that party, his assembly membership and joined BJP which inducted him into the ministry.
Naik successfully contested the bye-election held in December last.
