Judge recuses himself from KIADB case

BANGALORE: The judge hearing the bail application of former Karnataka minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, his son and another person in the KIADB scam today recused himself from the case.Justice K N Keshavanarayana said he had practised as a lawyer under the father of one of the accused and hence it would not be appropriate for him to hear bail applications of Naidu, his son Jagadish and ITASCA software firm Managing Director S V Srinivas.Justice Keshavanarayana practised under Srinivas' father.The matter will now go before the Chief Justice J S Khehar for assigning the petition to a new judge.Katta and the others were remanded to judicial custody on August eight.The three have approached the High Court after a lower court rejected their bail plea.