Bengaluru: Karnataka government on Friday tabled amendments to Lokayukta Act seeking more power in appointing Lokayukta.
The changes in the Lokayukta law have been introduced in the light of a raging row over an alleged bribery scandal that has hit the state's anti-graft ombudsman with growing clamour for his exit.
Facing allegations that it was softpedalling serious charges of corruption in the office of Lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao with his son's name also linked to it, the government formulated The Karnataka Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2015.
The government had in recent weeks been expressing its inability to remove Lokayukta despite the graft charges against his son who was allegedly part of an extortion racket in collusion with some officials of the institution.
There has been growing pressure from Opposition parties and various organisations for removal of Rao and a CBI probe into the alleged racket. But an unfazed Lokayukta is brazening it out, saying he would quit if the charges are proved.
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