Karnataka ADGP Amrit Paul and former Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner J. Manjunath were arrested on charges of being involved in a recruitment scam and for bribery respectively
Justice HP Sandesh of the High Court of Karnataka on Monday said he was threatened with the transfer after his remark against the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) that it had become a "collection centre".
Justice Sandesh had made observations against the ACB last week and its functioning while hearing a bail plea of P S Mahesh, a deputy Tahsildar in the office of the Bengaluru City Deputy Commissioner
Even as the arrest of a senior IPS and an IAS officer is being viewed as a setback for the ruling BJP, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that his government was committed to cleanse the entire system.The judiciary s biting remark on the .
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted the BJP over the statement of a Karnataka high court judge hearing a matter related to a bribery case that he was being threatened with transfer and accused the saffron party of bulldozing “institution after institution”.