<div align="justify">A Lokayukta special court on Monday reserved orders on the anticipatory bail application filed by T N Chikkarayappa, suspended managing director of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam. The court posted the application for orders to January 13.<br /><br />After the Income Tax Department and the Central Bureau of Investigation raids on Chikkarayappa’s house, the state Anti-Corruption Bureau had registered a case against him for possessing disproportionate assets. Chikkarayappa had approached the high court seeking quashing of the ACB proceedings against him.<br /><br />Notice to Ugrappa <br />The high court has ordered notice to V S Ugrappa, MLC, and Vidhana Soudha police in a petition filed by the member of a Facebook group ‘Swacha Brahmana Vedike’, Krishnamurthy Mugalodi, living in the US.<br /><br />Ugrappa had filed an FIR against the members of the group contending that they had abused him and that there was a threat to his life from them. The petitioner has sought directions to quash the FIR.</div>
<div align="justify">A Lokayukta special court on Monday reserved orders on the anticipatory bail application filed by T N Chikkarayappa, suspended managing director of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam. The court posted the application for orders to January 13.<br /><br />After the Income Tax Department and the Central Bureau of Investigation raids on Chikkarayappa’s house, the state Anti-Corruption Bureau had registered a case against him for possessing disproportionate assets. Chikkarayappa had approached the high court seeking quashing of the ACB proceedings against him.<br /><br />Notice to Ugrappa <br />The high court has ordered notice to V S Ugrappa, MLC, and Vidhana Soudha police in a petition filed by the member of a Facebook group ‘Swacha Brahmana Vedike’, Krishnamurthy Mugalodi, living in the US.<br /><br />Ugrappa had filed an FIR against the members of the group contending that they had abused him and that there was a threat to his life from them. The petitioner has sought directions to quash the FIR.</div>
