Mangalore, March 24: The Mangalore North MLA Krishna J Palemar, who was forced to resign from his ministerial berth one-and-a-half months ago, has hailed the 'positive report' by the Legislature Committee, which give him a clean chit in porngate.
“I resigned not because I had committed any crime, but to facilitate a free and fair probe. I feel happy that the house committee has cleared my name," said Mr Palemar, who was one of the most influential politicians of Karnataka till February 7, when he faced the charge of providing porn clips to his two cabinet colleagues during the Assembly proceedings.
Television footage of Legislative Assembly proceedings on February 7 showed Lakshman S Savadi watching porn clips and C C Patil, sitting next to him, also having a look at it, on a mobile phone of J Krishna Palemar. The three had to quit as ministers the next day following public outrage.
After several sittings, the four-member House committee — constituted to investigate into the issue had submitted its report to Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah earlier this week.
The report says that there is no evidence against two MLAs Mr Patil and Mr Palemar, while the third MLA Mr Savadi, has already apologised to the committee.
The panel, chaired by Shrishailappa Bidarur, had summoned representatives of two television channels and the three MLAs and questioned them on the episode, besides consulting top officials of the Law Department, before finalising the report.
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