Minutes not recorded: Karnataka

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, OCT. 13. The Karnataka Government will submit on October 16 (Monday) the ``primary material'' asked for by a Supreme Court Bench hearing writ appeals and petitions in the Veerappan associates release case.

A high-power committee, dealing with the Rajkumar abduction crisis (which entered the 76th day today), discussed the preliminaries of the issues framed by the court - whether the decision to withdraw TADA cases against the 51 Veerappan associates was taken in the wider public interest, the basis for the apprehension that any harm to Mr. Rajkumar will lead to widespread clashes in the State and whether any genuine effort was made all these years to nab Veerappan and the material to support it.

The meeting was chaired by the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna.

Later, the State Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr. D.B. Chandre Gowda, told presspersons that the documents would be furnished to the court in a sealed cover. However, some of the classified documents would not be presented in the court. Mr. Gowda said today's meeting discussed which of the documents should be supplied.

To a question, he said the minutes of the meetings between the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on the abduction crisis had not been recorded. That was his information. The Supreme Court has called for the minutes of those meetings.

To another question why the Advocate-General, Mr. A.N. Jayaram, was not appearing before the Supreme Court for the State, the Minister said the law officer was very much involved in the case. It was for the Advocate-General to take the services of counsel he thought the best to argue for the State.

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