Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Madal Virupakshappa become arrested on Monday, hours after the Karnataka excessive courtroom docket disregarded his bail utility in a bribery case referring to Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited (KSDL).
The HC had reserved its judgment withinside the be counted ultimate week. The case relates to the alleged call for and receipt of bribes for dishing out agreement for offering chemical compounds to the state-run company.
Subsequent raids with the aid of using the Lokayukta unearthed coins to the song of ₹8.23 crore. Justice K Natarajan rejected the anticipatory bail plea of the Channagiri MLA. Virupakshappa, who become the chairman of KSDL, has been charged with disturbing bribe thru his son Prashanth Madal, a KAS officer.
A call for for ₹eighty one lakh bribe to byskip a invoice become made and his son become stuck in his workplace even as accepting ₹forty lakh out of it.
Later, over ₹7 crore in coins become seized from Virupakshappa`s residence. Prashanth MV has already been arrested withinside the case on March 2. Four greater arrests had been made with the aid of using the Lokayukta police withinside the case because then. Virupakshappa has because resigned because the chairman of KSDL. Virupakshappa Madal is the high accused withinside the case.
