A court docket for elected representatives in Bengaluru held Karwar’s Congress MLA, Satish Sail, and 5 others responsible Thursday within the Rs 250-crore Belekeri port rip-off of 2011. Particular choose Gajanana Bhat directed CBI to take all six convicts into custody. The rip-off concerned theft and export of iron ore seized from Belekeri port in Uttara Kannada district. The iron ore was seized throughout investigations into unlawful iron ore mining in Karnataka between 2006-07 and 2010-11.
A number of instances have been registered in reference to the rip-off and the particular court docket discovered the suspects responsible in six of the instances. After the preliminary probe by Lokayukta, the case was transferred to CBI.
