Hearing a private complaint filed by advocate Dharmapal Gowda, the Seventh Additional chief metropolitan Magistrate Jayashankar directed Eshwarappa to appear before it on May 28, failing which warrants would be issued.
The court had earlier asked Eshwarappa to appear before it today, but the BJP leader failed to do so. The BJP leader was reportedly in Puttaparthi to offer his last respects to Sai Baba.
Eshwarappa had issued a bandh call after Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj granted sanction to prosecute Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa over alleged denotification of lands.
(Published 27 April 2011, 08:46 IST)
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