-Outlook Indore: Lokayukta Police today arrested a village panchayat secretary for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000 from a physically handicapped man in exchange of financial aid to him under Indira Awas Yojana scheme. Panchayat secretary of Tigariya village, Dilip Patel was arrested in Khandwa district on complaint of Vinod Shankarlal, Lokayukta Police said. Shankarlal was set to get Rs 45,000 under IAY to construct a house, out of which he had...

-The Hindu Bangalore: Police Commissioner B.G. Jyothi Prakash Mirji, who was summoned by the Lokayukta Court on Tuesday for failing to provide police protection to RTI activist T.J. Abraham, assured the court that he would immediately provide him with security cover. Mr. Abraham, who has filed cases in the Lokayukta Court against several powerful politicians, bureaucrats as well as businessmen, had recently filed a memo to the court stating he apprehended threat...

-The Economic Times Something interesting happened in Mumbai last month. For the first time ever, Harvard Business School stepped out of its Boston campus to bring its leadership and corporate accountability programme for senior corporate executives to India. The programme focuses on promoting socially and financially responsible corporate conduct. In an environment where scams and business scandals are making headlines every day, the turnout for the four-day programme was expectedly impressive. "Corruption...

-The Hindu Bangalore: The Lokayukta Special Court on Wednesday convicted L. Govindaraju, Bruhat Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) councillor for Ganesh Mandir ward, for demanding and accepting a bribe and sentenced him to four years’ rigorous imprisonment, besides fining him Rs. 90,000. Barely three months after he was elected, Govindaraju (Congress) was caught red-handed by Lokayukta sleuths accepting a bribe of Rs. 2 lakh from Uday Kumar, a builder, in July 2010. The Lokayukta...

-NDTV Bangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta court has ordered a probe against Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna and other top state politicians after allegations of irregularities in acquiring farmers' land for the Mysore-Bangalore Expressway. Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa will also be probed, among others. Both Mr Krishna and Mr Gowda have served as Karnataka chief ministers. A private complaint was filed at the Lokayukta...