Video Clip Controversy and Other Cases
In February 2012, TV cameras monitoring house proceedings found several members of the assembly watching pornographic movies on their mobile phones while attending a legislative debate. Speaker K. G. Bopaiah instituted a committee to investigate charges against former ministers and Bharatiya Janata Party legislators Laxman Savadi, C. C. Patil and J. Krishna Palemar. The ministers said that the video was an investigation of the behavior of foreign tourists near Udupi, who were apparently having sex in public at the Spring Zouk international rave party organised by the state tourism department and others. Two ministers resigned from the cabinet.
Non-BJP members of the investigating committee (four out of seven) boycotted it saying that the TV footage clearly established that they were watching porn, and no further investigation was needed.
The Income Tax Department,Bangalore under the Directorate General of Income Tax Investigation under the leadership of GM Belagali,Commissioner and Sibichen K Mathew, Additional Commissioner has filed prosecution against many politicians and legislative members prominent being CP Yogeshwar,Suresh Babu Kampili,Janardhana Reddy and Koddgil B Nagendra.
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