Bengaluru: Karnataka Lokayukta has now come under the scanner for alleged corruption by some of its officials, with its head deciding to hand over all such cases to Central Crime Branch (CCB) for a probe.
Amid allegations that one of its officials had demanded Rs 1 crore bribe, Y. Bhaskar Rao, a former Chief Justice of the state High Court, has transferred all the cases to the CCB but dismissed charges that his relatives were involved in graft.
“We have transferred all the cases to CCB for a fair investigation. We did this after we came to a conclusion that it wouldn’t be fair to probe the matter by us where the allegations are levelled against our body,” he told reporters here. Initially, the Lokayukta had ordered an internal investigation into the graft charges.
