Mangaluru : Lokayukta officials of Mangaluru on Thursday caught Nagaraju, junior engineer at Kinnigoli Town Panchayat, and M.R. Swamy, chief officer of the same panchayat, while allegedly receiving bribe from a Class I PWD contractor for passing a Bill. It is said that the junior engineer had demanded Rs.52,000 bribe for passing the Bill of […]

Mangaluru: Lokayukta officials from the state capital arrived to Mangaluru city on Friday and verified newly constructed concrete road at Marianagara, Pachchanadi in the city. The officials had arrived after a complaint by a RTI activist who alleged that the road constructed is below the standard approved. The activist has also alleged that the corporator […]

Mangalore : The Lokayukta officials conducted a raid and arrested three officials of the Agricultural produce market committee (APMC) for collecting the bribes from the traders and seized the amount of Rs 1.52 lakh on May 8, Thursday. The arrested three officials are APMC enforcement department joint director B Satish Kumar and lower rank officials […]

Mangalore : Lokayukta sleuths raided the residences of MCC Sanitary Inspector Shivalinga on Feb 16, Saturday morning. The official on receiving the information  of having unearthing assets conducted a raid at his residence at Nalapad Presidency, Capitanio. The Mangalore team of Lokayukta officials led by Inspector Umesh Shet conducted the raid. This is the first raid […]

Mangalore : As per the major raid operation, the Lokayukta leap down on RTOs across the state including Mangalore on Friday March 30. Mangalore Lokayukta SP D S Jagamayyanavar said that the raid was part of a state-wide operation across state RTOs. He also said that Lokayukta officials in Mangalore RTO raid did not find […]

Bangalore: Lokayukta officials today conducted searches at the premises of H D Balakrishna Gowda, eldest son of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, in connection with investigations into the disproportionate assets case against him. The searches were conducted at two houses and four offices of Gowda at Padmanabhanagar and Vijaynagar areas here, Lokayukta ADGP […]

Manipal: Lokayukta sleuths have arrested Ravichandra K, Deputy Environment Officer of Karnataka State Environment Control Board, Udupi district, while accepting a bribe of Rs 12,000 from an entrepreneur, in his office in Manipal on September 9, Thursday. Reportedly, complainant named Ganesh A Nalthur had applied for a no objection certificate to establish a coconut industry […]

Bangalore : The report on illegal mining in Karnataka is voluminous indeed! It runs into 25,228 pages and blames Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa and his predecessor H.D. Kumaraswamy among others, said Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde soon after submitting the report to the state government. The Lokayukta officials sifted through 400,000 files and five million entries in […]