Karnataka Lokayukta resigns

Karnataka Lokayukta Dr Justice Y Bhaskar Rao on Tuesday resigned from his post, his resignation letter was sent to the Governor which has been accepted. A motion to remove Dr. Rao was adopted by the Legislative Assembly recently and the Speaker was yet to hand over the probe into the case to the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Dr. Rao was on leave from 27th July and is holed up in Hyderabad after his son Y. Ashwin was arrested for running an extortion ring in the Lokayukta, threatening officers with raids if they failed to pay up.