The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash the chargesheet filed against M.R. Seetharam, former MLA, for allegedly helping a public servant to transact his ill-gotten money to pay the tuition fee for the postgraduate medical course of the latter’s daughter.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while rejecting the petition filed by Mr. Seetharam, who had questioned the order of the special court for Lokayukta cases in taking cognisance of offence for abetment in the alleged crime.
The investigating agency had registered a corruption case against T.N. Chikkaryappa, former managing director of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Ltd. for allegedly possessing asset worth ₹3.58 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.
