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Karnataka: CBI to probe phone tapping charges
Days after charges of phone tapping during the previous coalition government headed by Janata Dal-Secular surfaced, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday said he will order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the allegations citing demands by several Congress leaders.
Bengaluru: Days after charges of phone tapping during the previous coalition government headed by Janata Dal-Secular surfaced, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday said he will order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the allegations citing demands by several Congress leaders.
"On the telephone tapping issue. Several leaders, including Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah, have said it should be probed and truth should come out, so I have decided to order a CBI probe. Tomorrow itself I will order the probe," Yediyurappa told reporters in Bengaluru.
He also said it was the expectation of the people of the state that a detailed inquiry should be made and the culprits punished.
Yediyurappa's announcement comes amid signs that the scandal is gaining political steam ever since disqualified JD-S MLA A H Vishwanath, who served as the JD-S state president and turned rebel later, last week dropped the political bomb, accusing the H D Kumarswamy government of tapping phones and spying on more than 300 leaders, including him.
Congress leaders, including Siddaramaiah, M Mallikarjuna Kharge and home minister in the alliance government M B Patil, have sought a probe while another key party leader and former minister D K Shivakumar has rejected the snooping charges and appeared to side with Kumaraswamy.
