Bangalore : Karnataka’s tainted IT and BT Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu has resigned over a land scam on Friday.
Reports said Chief Minister C M Yeddyurappa accepted his resignation and forwarded it to the Governor.
The CM told reporters that the minister resigned to allow a fair trial.
The Lok Ayukta had earlier filed an FIR against the IT-BT minister.
Naidu and his kin are accused of taking crores of rupees as bribes in allotment of land to business groups when the former was industry minister.