Bengaluru: The Lokayukta Special Court has issued summons to former Lokayukta Justice Y. Bhaskar Rao to appear before it in connection with the alleged extortion racket in anti-corruption agency.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the case had filed a chargesheet against Justice Rao recently.
As the SIT named him as an accused, the court had directed him to appear before the court on Tuesday and issued summons.
The SIT, on August 3, had submitted the chargesheet in connection with FIR no. 56/2015 before Special Lokayukta court, naming Justice Rao as accused number seven and charged him under Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act and Sections 119 (public servant concealing design to commit offence), 120 (criminal conspiracy) r/w 36, 202 (intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform) and 217 (a public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture) among others of IPC.
