{"id":13607,"date":"2011-10-07T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:50:55","slug":"process-to-select-karnatakas-new-lokayukta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/process-to-select-karnatakas-new-lokayukta","title":{"rendered":"Process to select Karnataka&#8217;s new Lokayukta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13608\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/process-to-select-karnatakas-new-lokayukta\/chief-minister-dv-sadananda-gowda\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?fit=206%2C245&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"206,245\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DV Sadananda Gowda\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?fit=206%2C245&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13608\" title=\"DV Sadananda Gowda\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?resize=206%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?w=206&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Chief-Minister-DV-Sadananda-Gowda.png?resize=126%2C150&amp;ssl=1 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>The Karnataka government on Thursday started the process to select a new Lokayukta, nearly three weeks after Shivaraj V Patil quit as ombudsman amid media reports that he had violated norms in the acquisition of two plots in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda sent letters to the leaders of opposition in the state assembly, requesting them to suggest names, official sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Lokayukta has to be selected by the chief minister in consultation with the high court chief justice, chairman of the council, speaker of the assembly and leaders of the opposition in the two houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Only former judges of the supreme court or former chief justices of the high court can be appointed as Lokayukta. The term is for five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Shivaraj Patil, a former judge of the\u00a0Supreme \u00a0court, quit around 45 days after taking over, following media reports that he had transgressed norms in acquiring two plots from two housing societies in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>Patil, who succeeded another former Supreme Court judge N Santosh Hegde on Aug 3, resigned Sep 19, though he denied any violation as alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Gowda had said last week that he would not like to rush the matter of selecting a successor to Patil as it was a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>The state has two Upa Lokayuktas (deputy ombudsmen), who are former judges of the state High Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government on Thursday started the process to select a new Lokayukta, nearly three weeks after Shivaraj V Patil quit as ombudsman amid media reports that he had violated norms in the acquisition of two plots in Bangalore. \u00a0Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda sent letters to the leaders of opposition in the state assembly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5416,5415,5414],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-chief-minister-dv-sadananda-gowda","tag-karnatakas-new-lokayukta","tag-select-karnatakas-new-lokayukta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Process to select Karnataka&#039;s new Lokayukta  - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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Addressing a news conference here in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20821,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lokayuktas-can-useful-controlling-rampant-mining","url_meta":{"origin":13607,"position":3},"title":"Lokayuktas can be useful in controlling rampant mining","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Lokayuktas can play a vital role in controlling rampaging mining industry from encroaching on citizen's rights and curbing corruption this has been advocated by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW). This is a new ground for supporting Lokayuktas office, and it can be helpful for Lokpal as well at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12275,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lokayukta-slams-delhi-chief-minister","url_meta":{"origin":13607,"position":4},"title":"Lokayukta slams Delhi chief minister","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"July 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Delhi Lokayukta (ombudsman) Manmohan Sarin Monday came down heavily on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, saying she misrepresented facts about the completion of 60,000 low-cost flats ahead of distribution in the run-up to the 2008 assembly elections. The Lokayukta has recommended President Pratibha Patil to censure her. In his order, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Delhi-Chief-Minister-Sheila-Dikshit1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12521,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-stops-all-mining-work-in-bellary","url_meta":{"origin":13607,"position":5},"title":"Supreme Court stops all mining work in Bellary","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"July 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court Friday ordered the suspension of all mining operations in Karnataka's Bellary region. \"Mining (is) suspended with immediate effect till further orders,\" said a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.H. 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