<p>"I was chairing the cabinet meeting. I am yet to get details about the incident. Law will take its own course. Will ask police to initiate action against those involved," Yeddyurappa told reporters here.<br /><br />Tappal Ganesh and two of his brothers, on whose plea the Supreme Court recently stayed mining operations of a company owned by the Reddy brothers in Andhra Pradesh, were attacked this morning by an eight-member gang when they were waiting outside a hotel to meet the apex court-appointed Survey of India team.<br /><br />The court had set up team to determine whether reserved forest areas have been encroached by Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by state Tourism Minister G Janardhana Reddy and Revenue Minister G Karunakara Reddy.<br /><br />Yeddyurappa dismissed a suggestion that there was no law and order in Bellary, remarking "I don't think so. I have visited it several times".<br /><br />Karunakara Reddy, who was present in the cabinet meeting along with his brother Janardhana Reddy, rejected accusations against them that they were behind the attack.<br />"Such charges were being hurled against us since four years. We are not involved in the attack," he told PTI here.<br /><br />"Let there be a survey of the mining areas from an international body. We are not afraid of it. The on-going survey by the Supreme Court-appointed Survey of India team is going on smoothly," he said.</p>
<p>"I was chairing the cabinet meeting. I am yet to get details about the incident. Law will take its own course. Will ask police to initiate action against those involved," Yeddyurappa told reporters here.<br /><br />Tappal Ganesh and two of his brothers, on whose plea the Supreme Court recently stayed mining operations of a company owned by the Reddy brothers in Andhra Pradesh, were attacked this morning by an eight-member gang when they were waiting outside a hotel to meet the apex court-appointed Survey of India team.<br /><br />The court had set up team to determine whether reserved forest areas have been encroached by Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by state Tourism Minister G Janardhana Reddy and Revenue Minister G Karunakara Reddy.<br /><br />Yeddyurappa dismissed a suggestion that there was no law and order in Bellary, remarking "I don't think so. I have visited it several times".<br /><br />Karunakara Reddy, who was present in the cabinet meeting along with his brother Janardhana Reddy, rejected accusations against them that they were behind the attack.<br />"Such charges were being hurled against us since four years. We are not involved in the attack," he told PTI here.<br /><br />"Let there be a survey of the mining areas from an international body. We are not afraid of it. The on-going survey by the Supreme Court-appointed Survey of India team is going on smoothly," he said.</p>