Controversial Karnataka lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao has finally resigned from his post of lokayukta on Tuesday. His resignation letter was sent to Governor Vajubhai Vala on Monday through NS Balakrishna, in-charge registrar, Karnataka lokayukta and a Rajbhavan communique has said Governor has accepted his resignation with immediate effect.
A motion to remove . Bhaskar Rao was adopted by the winter session of Karnataka legislative Assembly recently and the Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa as per the procedure was all set to hand over the probe into the case to Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court.
Bhaskar Rao was on leave from July 27 and is 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. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the extortion ring scandal had in fact not only listed . Bhaskar Rao as a prosecution witness, but also grilled him for several hours and conducted a mahazar of his official residence and office as scenes of crime.